Publications

Publication details [#5422]

Keenan, Elinor Ochs. 1975. Making it last: Repetition in children's discourse. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 1 : 279–294.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

given vs. new information, L1-acquisition of | repetition in child language | topicalization, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

An investigation of the communicative function of repetition in children's speech. The final hypothesis is that cross-utterance repetition anticipates the syntactic marking of old information and that its importance diminishes as soon as syntactic devices for topicalization emerge in the speech of the child.

Reprints

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1983. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Acquiring conversational competence. Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 26–39.

Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan. 1977. In Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, eds. Child discourse. Academic Press. pp. 125–138.