Children's Discourse: Person, Space and Time across Languages

Maya Hickmann (Universite de Paris V)

Children's Discourse: Person, Space and Time across Languages
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
21 November 2002
Pages
412
ISBN
9780521584418

Children’s Discourse: Person, Space and Time across Languages

Maya Hickmann (Universite de Paris V)

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.

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