The Acquisition of Reference
Editors
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 state-of-the-art approach makes the research accessible to specialist and non-specialist researchers alike, and will provide an invaluable resource for graduate-level courses.
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 15] 2015. vi, 339 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Introduction: An overview of the acquisition of referenceLudovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen | pp. 1–24
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The acquisition of nominal determiners: Evidence from cross-linguistic approachesDominique Bassano-Bonhommo | pp. 25–49
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Mapping information structure and word order: The acquisition of object placementKristine Bentzen | pp. 51–82
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Children’ use of intonation in reference and the role of inputAoju Chen | pp. 83–104
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The role of gesture in referential communication: A developmental perspectiveMelvin Mai-Rong Ng, Özlem Ece Demir and Wing Chee So | pp. 105–121
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The role of cognitive accessibility in children’s referential choiceShanley E.M. Allen, Mary Hughes and Barbora Skarabela | pp. 123–153
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Acquisition and use of pronouns in a dialogic perspectiveAnne Salazar Orvig and Aliyah Morgenstern | pp. 155–180
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From early to late mastery of reference: Multifunctionality and linguistic diversityMaya Hickmann, Sarah Schimke and Saveria Colonna | pp. 181–211
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Online evidence for children’s interpretation of personal pronounsIrina A. Sekerina | pp. 213–239
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Children’s sensitivity to caregiver cues and the role of adult feedback in the developmentof referential communicationA. Beyza Ateş-Şen and Aylin C. Küntay | pp. 241–262
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The cognitive underpinnings of referential abilitiesCécile De Cat | pp. 263–283
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Production and comprehension of pronouns and reflexives in atypical populationsVicky Chondrogianni | pp. 285–309
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Referential expressions in bilingual acquisitionLudovica Serratrice and Coralie Hervé | pp. 311–333
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Language index | p. 335
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Subject index | pp. 337–339
“The varied chapters of The Acquisition of Reference provide state-of-the-art coverage of one of the most elusive and important topics in linguistic analysis and language use, hence, too, in child language acquisition. The editors are to be praised for the careful work they have done in ensuring contributions of a consistently high quality in both scholarly level and style of presentation. I endorse this volume in the strongest possible terms.”
Ruth Berman, Tel-Aviv University
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDC: Language acquisition
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2015027250