Maya Hickmann

Children's Discourse

Person, Space and Time Across Languages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses questions in the study of first language acquisition in three domains of child language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521065108
• ISBN-10: 0521065100
• Artikelnr.: 23558780

Autorenporträt

Maya Hickmann is Research Director at Laboratoire Cognition et Développement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Paris V.

Inhaltsangabe

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.