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Publication details [#57450]

Serratrice, Ludovica. 2013. The role of number of referents and animacy in children's use of pronouns. Journal of Pragmatics 56 (1) : 31–42.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | information structure | pronoun | referent | storytelling

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Two story-telling experiments involving English-speaking four-year-old children confirm the postulation that children -like adults- choose referential expressions on the basis of discourse models that offer both linguistic and perceptual information.