The Effect of Age and Task Complexity on the Microstructure of Child Arabic Narratives.

Purpose: This study examines the development of narrative microstructure elements of productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity in the oral story production of preschool- and school-age Kuwaiti Arabic-speaking children. It also explores the effects of story task complexity on the target microstructural features.

Method: This study employed a cross-sectional research design and enrolled 96 monolingual speakers of Kuwaiti Arabic.