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CHILDREN’S DISCOURSE
PERSON, SPACE AND TIME ACROSS LANGUAGES
This original comparative study explores two central questions in the study
of first language acquisition. What is the relative impact of structural and
functional determinants? What is universal versus language-specific during
development? Maya Hickmann addresses these questions in three domains of
child language: reference to entities, the representation of space, and uses of
temporal-aspectual markings. She provides a thorough review of different the-
oreticalapproachestolanguageacquisitionandawiderangeofdevelopmental
research, as well as examining all three domains in English, French, German
and Chinese narratives. Hickmann’s findings concern the rhythm of acqui-
sition, the interplay among different factors (syntactic, semantic, pragmatic)
determining children’s uses, and universal versus variable aspects of acquisi-
tion. Her conclusions stress the importance of relating sentence and discourse
determinants of acquisition in a cross-linguistic perspective.
Children’s Dis-
course
willbewelcomedbythoseworkinginpsychologyandlanguage-related
disciplines interested in first language acquisition.
is Research Director at Laboratoire Cognition et
Developpement, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Univer-
sity of Paris V. Her publications on discourse include a variety of chapters in
collected volumes and articles in journals concerning first language acquisi-
tion including
Journal of Child Language
,
First Language
and
Journal of
Psycholinguistic Research.
She is also the editor of
Social and Functional
Approaches to Language and Thought
(1987).
In this series
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The syntaxand semantics of middle constructions: a study
with special reference to German
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Universal grammar and language learnability
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A-Morphous morphology
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Switch reference and discourse representation
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A theory of aspectuality: the interaction between temporal and
atemporal structure
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The lexicon in acquisition
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English auxiliaries: structure and history
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Grammatical theory in the United States from Bloomfield to
Chomsky
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Negative and positive polarity: a binding approach
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Ergativity
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The syntaxand pragmatics of anaphora
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Information structure and sentence form: topic, focus, and the
mental representations of discourse referents
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Principles of English stress
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A performance theory of order and constituency
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Historical syntaxin cross-linguistic
perspective
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The syntaxof negation
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Syntaxand parsing
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Italian syntaxand universal grammar
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Restrictiveness in case theory
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Intonational phonology
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The raising of predicates: predicative noun phrases and the theory
of clause structure
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Historical linguistics and language change
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A notional theory of syntactic categories
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Possession: cognitive sources, forces and grammaticalization
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The dynamics of focus structure
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Phonological representations: their names, forms and powers
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Slavic prosody: language change and phonological theory
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Conditionals and prediction: time, knowledge and
causation in conditional constructions
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Creole genesis and the acquisition of grammar: the case of
Haitian Creole
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Lexical strata in English: morphological causes, phonological
effects
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Morpheme order and semantic scope: word formation and the
Athapaskan verb
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Lexical phonology and the history of English
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Tone sandhi: patterns across Chinese dialects
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Inflectional morphology: a theory of paradigm structure
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Phonology and language use
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Morphological productivity
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The Syntaxof adjuncts
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Regularity in
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Children’s discourse: person, space and time across languages
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Children’s Discourse
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