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The Turkish\u2010adapted Global TALES\u2010TR protocol was conducted online with the children. The narratives were assessed for microstructure measures using the Turkish Research Version of the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcripts (SALT) program. SPSS 22.0 and TURCOSA software were used for statistical analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Some age\u2010related differences were observed in children's narrative microstructure, with significant contrasts between the youngest and oldest groups in verbal productivity and semantic diversity, while a more limited age effect was observed for semantic diversity between the age\u20108 and age\u20109 groups. Gender\u2010related differences were limited. When the full sample was considered, a measure reflecting syntactic complexity showed a gender effect. Age\u2010specific analyses indicated that gender\u2010related differences in verbal productivity and syntactic complexity were observed only in the age\u20109 group. All observed gender\u2010related differences favoured girls. The frequency of follow\u2010up prompts and unanswered prompts showed that the \u2018problem\u2019 narrative was the most challenging for children. Narratives primarily focused on topics such as family, friends, school and success.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results show that the adapted protocol can be used in personal narrative assessment. These findings may inform future research and clinical assessment practices. Furthermore, using this protocol, broader information can also be gathered about groups such as those with language disorders.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic>What is already known on the subject<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\">\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>Personal narratives provide rich information about children's language, discourse and communicative competence and are widely used in both research and clinical assessment. The Global TALES protocol has been developed as a cross\u2010linguistic and cross\u2010cultural framework to elicit personal narratives using emotion\u2010based prompts and has been applied in multiple languages and cultural contexts. However, empirical evidence on personal narrative performance in Turkish\u2010speaking children remains limited, and systematic data obtained using internationally comparable protocols are scarce.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <\/jats:list>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic>What this study adds to existing knowledge<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\">\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>This study extends a previous pilot study by providing systematically analysed assessment data from a larger sample of TD Turkish\u2010speaking children aged 7\u201310 years using the Turkish\u2010adapted Global TALES protocol. The findings offer detailed information on verbal productivity, semantic diversity and syntactic complexity in Turkish personal narratives, including age\u2010related patterns and limited gender\u2010related differences. In addition, the study documents children's use of follow\u2010up prompts and the narrative topics elicited by different emotional prompts, contributing cross\u2010cultural data that can be compared with findings from other countries participating in the Global TALES project.<\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <\/jats:list>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:italic>What are the potential or actual clinical implications of this work?<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\">\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>The results provide reference data that may support speech\u2010language pathologists in interpreting personal narrative samples from Turkish\u2010speaking children aged 7\u201310 years. The study demonstrates the feasibility of using the Global TALES protocol in Turkish, offering clinicians a culturally sensitive and internationally comparable framework for narrative assessment. 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