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Publication details [#14159]

Meng, Katharina and Susanne Schrabback. 1999. Interjections in adult-child discourse: The cases of German HM and NA. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (10) : 1263–1287.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | discourse marker | discourse organization | interjection | language acquisition

Language as a subject

German

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A study of the interactive functions and formal properties of German interjections HM and NA, confirming the validity of Ehlich's approach to interjections. Comparison of the adults' and the children's use of interjections revealed that the children had acquired the basic forms and functions of the interjections, but did not yet grasp the interjections' plurifunctionality.