Catalan Children's Sensitivity to the Discourse Constraints Imposed by Different Kinds of Question

Prat-Sala, Mercè and Hahn, Ulrike 2007. Catalan Children's Sensitivity to the Discourse Constraints Imposed by Different Kinds of Question. Language Learning 57 (3) , pp. 443-467. 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00422.x

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Abstract

In an investigation of discourse sensitivity, Catalan-speaking children aged 4 to 8 years were asked two different questions in a picture description task. One was a wide-focus question (“What is happening?”); the other was a narrow-focus question (“What is happening to ‘the patient’?”). Children of all age groups displayed sensitivity to the various discourse constraints imposed by the two different questions, responding both with changes to word order and with changes in use of referential expressions. However, there was evidence of a developmental change between 4 and 5 years of age. The possible causes of this change are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Uncontrolled Keywords:	referential expressions; discourse; givenness; word order; determiners; language acquisition; language development
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0023-8333
Last Modified:	19 Mar 2016 22:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/33078

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