The Development of New and Old Information in Young Children’s Early Language  

Oleh:

Baker, Nancy D. ; Greenfield, Patricia M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 10 no. 1 (1988), page 3-34.
Fulltext: 10_01_Baker.pdf (1.82MB)

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Infants can distinguish early in their first year of life sensory/environmental input that is newly presented to them as opposed to information with which they have become familiar. This new-old distinction plays an important role in children’s language acquisition. Results of a ~on~tudi~al study of four children (approximately 17 months to 2 years, 9 months) indicate that children’s linguistic selection at the one-word stage was governed by principles of informativeness. Children used their single-word utterances to report on or about new information. At the two-word stage, similar informativeness principles operated. The two words expressed new or a combination of new and old information, while totally presupposed information was omitted. Moreover omission or deletion of linguistic items to produce single-word utterances were of items related to old info~at~on. The function of early language thus is to produce new or changing information. The new-old distinction can be seen as the ~rceptual/co~itive foundation for the topic+omment and the presupposition-assertion distinctions in later language.

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