Children''s Discourse - Person, Space and Time Across Languages

Informationen zum Autor Maya Hickmann is Research Director at Laboratoire Cognition et Développement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and University of Paris V. Klappentext Addresses questions in the study of first language acquisition in three domains of child language. Zusammenfassung Maya Hickmann presents a 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! space and time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Maya Hickmann, Maya (Universite De Paris V) Hickmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.06.2008
• EAN: 9780521065108
• ISBN: 978-0-521-06510-8
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology