LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

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Narrative Skills in Geriatrics Malayalam Speakers

Aswathy E Nebu, MASLP
Deepa Elizabeth Thomas, MASLP
Jittu Susan Varghese, MASLP
Satish Kumaraswamy, Asst. Professor & Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Narrative analysis is a systematic procedure for the analysis of recording the naturally occurring talk produced in everyday human interaction. The study focused on analysis of narrative skills in geriatrics. It includes a total 15 geriatrics (8 males&7 females) of age 60-70 years with no history of speech and hearing problem, neurological problem and who spoke Malayalam as their native language.

Narrative samples of familiar and unfamiliar tasks were taken and analyzed to study types of trouble sources such as phonological, morphological-syntactic, semantic, discourse and also repair strategies such as repetition, unrelated, elaboration, reduction and substitution along with the complexity and success of resolution like most successful, successful and unsuccessful and type token ratio using the systematic procedure.

The result shows that there is no significant difference between the trouble sources and type of repair strategies in familiar and unfamiliar tasks, while the repair sequences value is and type of resolutions showed highly significant difference. The comparison of type token ratio for familiar and unfamiliar tasks revealed that there is a highly significant difference for both open and close class words. So as the age increases there will be deterioration in the communicative skills. Future research is required to study the narrative aspects across various groups of adults and geriatrics and can be used in children with language disorders. Key Words: Narrative skills, Geriatrics, Malayalam.

Introduction

Narrative analysis is a systematic procedure for the analysis of recording the naturally occurring talk produced in everyday human interaction. Narrative Skills build upon vocabulary skills. In order to have the ability to describe things, emotions, and objects, a child needs to have a wide vocabulary. Having strong narrative skills helps build reading comprehension and fluency. Narrative skills help children understand what they are reading and hearing.

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Aswathy E Nebu (Corresponding Author)
Final Year Postgraduate Student
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
Karnataka
India
aswathy.enebu@gmail.com

Deepa Elizabeth Thomas
Second Year Postgraduate Student
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
Karnataka
India Jittu Susan Varghese
Second Year Postgraduate Student
Dr. M. V. Shetty College of Speech and Hearing
Mangalore 575015
Karnataka
India
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