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Publication details [#23555]

Chipman, Harold H. and Margherita Imperiale di Francavilla. 1989. His or hers?: How young English and Algerian Arabic-speaking children understand third person possessive pronouns in object position. Folia Linguistica 23 (1-2) : 157–180.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

On how the anaphoric/exophoric link conveyed by third person possessive pronouns in object positions (as in `The boy pushes hers and then the girl pets his') is established and understood at different ages.