Pronoun reversals: who, when, and why?  

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Dale, Philip S. ; Crain-Thoreson, Catherine

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 20 no. 3 (Oct. 1993), page 573-590.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Seventeen of a sample of 3° precocious talkers aged I; 8 produced at least one pronoun reversal (If you) during unstructured play. This finding led to an examination of the role of cognitive and linguistic individual differences as well as contextual factors and processing complexity as determinants of pronoun reversal. Contrary to predictions derived from previous hypotheses, there were few differences between reversers and non-reversers, other than higher use of second person forms by reversers. Reversals were more likely to occur in certain contexts: semantically reversible predicates with two noun phrases, and in imitations (though the rate of imitation was lower overall in reversers). We propose that pronoun reversals commonly result from a failure to perform a deictic shift, which is especially likely when children's psycho linguistic processing resources are taxed. Children who did not produce any pronoun reversals tended to avoid pronoun use, especially second person forms. Overt reversal may thus reflect a risk-taking approach to language acquisition, which may be particularly characteristic of precocious children.

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