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Publication details [#57455]

Kilani-Schoch, Marianne and Aris Xanthos. 2013. The adjective petit ‘small, little’ in French acquisition data: An example of the relationship between pragmatics and morphosyntactic development. Journal of Pragmatics 56 (1) : 113–132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adjective | L1-acquisition | meaning | pragmatic function | pragmatics

Language as a subject

French

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This analysis of production, functions and meanings of the adjective 'petit' in child L1 French aquisition data, presents new evidence that leastwise some pragmatic meanings are prior to semantic ones in early language acquisition, along with examples of children's pragmatic overgeneralizations.