Publications

Publication details [#1098]

Baroni, Anna Maria, Elisabetta Fava and Giovanna Tirondola. 1974. L'ordine delle parole nel linguaggio infantile. In Medici, Mario and Antonella Sangregorio, eds. Fenomeni morfologici e sintattici nell'Italiano contemporaneo. Atti del VI congresso internazionale di studi, Roma 1972. Bulzoni. pp. 375–390.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

Italian

Keywords

early childhood | new information | predicate | production, L1-acquisition of | word order, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

The analysis of spontaneous linguistic production in two-year-old children shows that (i) in sentences occurring in dialogue, the first element is (contrary to what happens in adult linguistic production) new information; (ii) in abruptive sentences, the first element is, in most cases, the predicate.