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Dimroth, Christine; Narasimhan, Bhuvana – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
When communicating with their interlocutors, adults have a robust preference to order previously mentioned ("old") referents in the discourse before mentioning referents that have not yet been introduced in the discourse ("new"). But in an experimental study investigating phrasal conjuncts, 3- to 5-year-olds acquiring German…
Descriptors: Child Language, Child Development, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure
Grünloh, Thomas; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Language Learning and Development, 2015
In the current study we investigate whether 2- and 3-year-old German children use intonation productively to mark the informational status of referents. Using a story-telling task, we compared children's and adults' intonational realization via pitch accent (H*, L* and de-accentuation) of New, Given, and Contrastive referents. Both children and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Language Patterns

Hamann, Cornelia – Language Acquisition, 1996
Investigates the 10% to 20% null subject stage in 3-year-olds in Germany and shows that this stage, though long, is not final. Findings indicate that children in this phase use structures found neither in the state of early null subjects nor in adult German, namely, postverbal referential null subjects. Further study is proposed. (94 references)…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Child Development, Child Language