The Acquisition of Reference (Trends in Language Acquisition Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027244049 ISBN 13: 9789027244048

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

Referring to entities is one of the key functions of language; learning to understand and use the relevant referential expressions is one of children's major linguistic achievements. The 13 chapters of this volume bring together a wealth of information on the acquisition of referential processes in infants, pre-schoolers and school-age children drawing on data from more than 25 languages ranging from Italian to Inuktitut, and from Norwegian to Turkish. This book presents the state-of-the-art of corpus and experimental research on the acquisition of reference. The breadth of aspects of referential acquisition will make the volume appealing to a wide audience of researchers, including linguists and psycholinguists working on phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse-pragmatic aspects of language development. The cross-linguistic perspective adopted by several of the contributors will be of particular interest to researchers investigating the relevance of typological differences. The

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027244049
• ISBN 13: 9789027244048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 345
• Editor: Serratrice Ludovica, Allen Shanley E.M.