Acquisition of Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Diessel, Holger; Monakhov, Sergei
Titel	Acquisition of Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 50 (2023) 4, S.922-953 (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Diessel, Holger) ORCID (Monakhov, Sergei)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500092200023X
Schlagwörter	Japanese; Chinese; Hebrew; Indonesian; Form Classes (Languages); Contrastive Linguistics; Language Role; French; Spanish; Computational Linguistics; Speech Communication; Native Language; Word Frequency; English; Child Development; Language Acquisition; Communication Strategies; Infants; Toddlers; Developmental Stages; Preschool Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Japaner; Japanisch; China; Chinesen; Analytischer Sprachbau; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Französisch; Spanisch; Computerlinguistik; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; English language; Englisch; Kindesentwicklung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Kommunikationsstrategie; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule
Abstract	This paper examines the acquisition of demonstratives (e.g., "that," "there") from a cross-linguistic perspective. Although demonstratives are often said to play a crucial role in L1 acquisition, there is little systematic research on this topic. Using extensive corpus data of spontaneous child speech, the paper investigates the emergence and development of demonstratives in three European (English, French, Spanish) and four non-European languages (Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Indonesian) between age 1;0 and 6;0. The data show that, across languages, demonstratives are among the earliest and most frequent child words, but their frequency decreases with age and MLU. As children grow older, they tend to use other types of referring terms (e.g., anaphoric pronouns) and other types of spatial expressions (e.g., adpositions). Considering these results, we hypothesize that children shift from using a body-oriented strategy of deictic communication to more abstract and disembodied strategies of encoding reference and space during the preschool years. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01