Publications

Publication details [#54865]

Huang, Chiung-chih. 2011. Referential choice in Mandarin child language: A discourse-pragmatic perspective. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (7) : 2057–2080.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | mother-child conversation | pragmatic competence | reference

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study on young Mandarin-speaking children's referential choice in natural mother-child conversations, provides an important piece of cross-linguistic evidence for the discourse-pragmatic explanation of children's referential choice.