Pre-school children's use of the articles in definite and indefinite reffering expressions  

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Stevenson, Rosemary J. ; Emslie, Hazel C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 8 no. 2 (Jun. 1981), page 313-328.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/8 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Three experiments investigated the ability of children aged 2 ; 2-4; 10 to use identifying expressions to introduce new referents and the definite article to refer to already introduced referents. The results suggest that young children initially master the nominative use of a, but that from the age of 3 they have mastered the non-egocentric use of the definite article. On first mention their referring expressions are predominantly indefinite, and on second mention definite. The results are discussed in relation to previous studies, and the questions of suitable adult controls and' appropriateness' of article usage are also considered.

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