Development of forms and functions of interrogatives in children: a longitudinal study in Tamil  

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Vaidyanathan, R.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 15 no. 3 (Oct. 1988), page 533-550.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The development of the forms and functions of interrogatives in parent-child interaction in the early stages of language acquisition is discussed with illustrative examples from data relating to two Tamil- speaking children and their parents. The analysis of the data reveals that children first acquire and use intonation questions followed by enga 'where', enna 'what' and yaari 'who'. Yes/no questions using the interrogative marker -aa are acquired in the next stage when the children are able to use verb endings. Similarly question words that take case markers are acquired in the next stage. It is emphasized that interrogatives serve a multiplicity of communicative functions and are not restricted to the information-seeking role. Children, when they begin to use interrogatives, model their usage of them on the adult behaviour patterns to which they have been exposed, both in terms of form and function.

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