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Children's discourse : person, space and time across languages /
Maya Hickmann presents an original comparative study of discourse development in English, French, German, and Chinese. She 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, spac...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
98. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. I. Available theories and data
- Theoretical issues
- Cross-linguistic invariants and variations
- Coherence and cohesion in discourse development
- Children's marking of information status : referring expressions and clause structure
- The acquisition of spatial and temporal-aspectual devices
- pt. II. Cross-linguistic study of children's narratives
- Methodological issues
- Animate entities
- Space
- Time
- Conclusions.