Cohesion and Anaphora in Children's Narratives: A Comparison of English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese.

Hickmann, Maya; Hendriks, Henriette

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Publication Date: 1999

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Cohesion and Anaphora in Children's Narratives: A Comparison of English, French, German, and Mandarin Chinese.

Hickmann, Maya; Hendriks, Henriette

Journal of Child Language, v26 n2 p419-52 Jun 1999

The aim of this study was to determine universal versus language-specific aspects of children's ability to organize cohesive anaphoric relations in discourse. Analyses examine narratives produced on the basis of two picture sentences by subjects of four ages (preschoolers, 7-year olds, 10-year olds, and adults) in four languages: English, German, French, and Mandarin Chinese (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, English, French, German, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals, Mandarin Chinese, Narration, Pictorial Stimuli, Pragmatics, Preschool Children, Semantics, Syntax, Young Children

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Language: English

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