Antonyms in Children's and Child-Directed Speech  

Oleh:

Murphy, M. Lynne ; Jones, Steven

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 28 no. 4 (Nov. 2008), page 403-430.
Topik: Acquisition; antonym; child-directed speech; constructions; contrast; discourse functions; opposite; preschool children; semantic relations
Fulltext: Vol 28, no (4), page 403–430.pdf (215.37KB)

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This article presents two studies based on a corpus of American English speech by and to five children from 2 to 5 years old. The first study investigates frequency of antonym co-occurrence in speakers’ turns. The second examines the discourse-functional properties of those co-occurrences, with comparison to adult-directed adult English. We find: (1) children know/use antonyms at earlier ages than experimental studies have shown; (2) children use antonyms for mostly the same discursive purposes as adults do; (3) children can be categorized as being either ‘heavy’ or ‘light’ antonym users, and ‘heaviness’ of antonym use seems to correlate to other aspects of antonym behaviour.

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