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Publication details [#41284]

Philip, William and Sabine Botschuijver. 2004. Discourse integration and indeﬁnite subjects in child English. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 42 (2) : 189–201.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | discourse | monolingualism | subject

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This article examines a cognitive factor which has recently been hypothesized to influence monolingual children’s understanding of the speciﬁc reading of indeﬁnite subjects and objects. It focuses on the indeﬁnite subject in the single-clause English sentence.