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Publication details [#61765]
Huang, Chiung-chih. 2016. Information management in Mandarin child speech, maternal speech, and adult speech. Lingua 184 : 53–68.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
Speech information management may be linked to children's evolving linguistic skills, mothers’ speech adaptations, and adults’ fledged abilities, as these speech types notably differ as to information pressure and lexical referential density. Grammatical alignment patterns (cfr. following quantity restrictions), and thus preferred argument structure, appear similar.