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This chapter is the second of two on a narrative coding scheme on cohesion and coherence for children. In this chapter, I deal with syntactic complexity and coherence, in particular. This chapter provides examples in French more than in the last chapter.
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Young, G. (2011). Narrative Discourse Coding: Syntactic Complexity-Errors and Coherence. In: Development and Causality. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9422-6_34
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