Date: 24-Jun-2008 From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org> Subject: Children's Discourse: Hickmann E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Children's Discourse
Subtitle: Person, Space and Time across Languages
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 98
Published: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Note: This is the paperback edition of a previously announced title.
Psycholinguist Maya Hickmann presents an original comparative study of discourse development in English, French, German, and Chinese. Hickmann discusses the main theoretical issues in the study of first language acquisition and provides a wide review of available studies in three domains of child language: person, space and time. Her findings concern the rhythm of language acquisition, its formal and functional determinants, and its universal vs. language-specific aspects. The conclusions stress the importance of relating sentence and discourse determinants of acquisition in a crosslinguistic perspective.
1. Introduction;
Part I. Available Theories and Data: 2. Theoretical issues; 3. Crosslinguistic invariants and variations; 4. Coherence and cohesion in discourse development; 5. Children's marking of information status: referring expressions and clause structure; 6. The acquisition of spatial and temporal-aspectual devices;
Part II. A Crosslinguistic Study of Children's Narratives: 7. Methodological issues; 8. Animate entities; 9. Space; 10. Time;
11. Conclusions;
Appendix.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Language Acquisition
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