In:
Journal of Child Language, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 7, No. 2 ( 1980-06), p. 235-261
Abstract:
The acquisition of connective forms and the meaning relations between connected clauses in the development of complex sentences is described for four children from two to three years of age. The major results of the study include the developmental interactions between syntactic connectives and meaning relations, and between these interactions and the discourse environments in which they occurred. The first syntactic connective the children learned, and , was the most general: semantically, and was used to encode conjunction with all of the different conjunction meaning relations in the order Additive 〈 Temporal 〈 Causal 〈 Adversative. Other connectives were semantically more specific, and were learned subsequently with different syntactic structures in the order Conjunction 〈 Complementation 〈 Relativization. These results are discussed in terms of FORM, relative linguistic complexity; CONTENT, the intersection of form with conceptual and semantic factors affecting acquisition; and USE, discourse cohesion.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0305-0009
,
1469-7602
DOI:
10.1017/S0305000900002610
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1980
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1466489-6
SSG:
5,2
SSG:
7,11
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