Publications

Publication details [#42543]

Budwig, Nancy, Bhuvaneswari Narasimhan and Lalita Murty. 2005. Argument realization in Hindi caregiver–child discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (4) : 461–495.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argument | L1-acquisition | language, production of | mother-child conversation | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Hindi

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study argues that, notwithstanding argument ellipsis in Hindi caregiver-child discourse, Hindi acquiring children do not make transitivity errors and seem to be sensitive to discourse-pragmatics in their own spontaneous speech production.