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Information structure in language acquisition. Production and comprehension of (in)definite articles by German-speaking children.
Christina KauschkeJulia FuchsUlrike Domahssubject
AdultMaleLinguistics and LanguageExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyContext (language use)Language DevelopmentVocabulary050105 experimental psychologyLanguage and LinguisticsTask (project management)GermanGermanyDevelopmental and Educational PsychologyHumans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLanguage Development DisordersChildGeneral Psychology05 social sciencesPerspective (graphical)Information structurePragmaticsVerbal LearningLanguage acquisitionlanguage.human_languageComprehensionChild PreschoollanguageFemalePsychologyComprehensionChild Language050104 developmental & child psychologyCognitive psychologydescription
AbstractThe present study investigates the production and comprehension of indefinite and definite articles as markers of givenness by typically-developing German-speaking children, from the perspective of information structure theory. The study involves 93 typically-developing children aged four to seven years old with normal language-skills and 20 adults. The results of a story-narration task and a truth-value judgment task reveal that children have more problems with new than with given referents in production as well as comprehension suggesting a “given better than new”-pattern. These findings are explained in the context of perspective-taking capacities and cue weighting theory.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-26 | Journal of child language |