| Zdroj: |
Graf, E, Theakston, A, Lieven, E & Tomasello, M 2015, ' Subject and object omission in children's early transitive constructions: A discourse-pragmatic approach ', Applied Psycholinguistics, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 701-727 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716413000477 |
| Popis: |
This paper investigates discourse effects on the provision of both subjects and objects and investigates whether pragmatic discourse features govern the realization/omission of both constituents alike. In an elicitation study, we examined how the discourse-pragmatic feature contrast, as applied to the subject, verb, or object of a transitive utterance affected the provision of elements in the remainder of the sentence when all elements were previously introduced. The results showed that 3.5-year-old children were more likely to realize a contrasted argument with a lexical noun but more likely to omit the argument when it was not part of a contrast, regardless of its subject or object status. This suggests that contrast presents a unifying discourse feature for argument omission in language development. |
