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Anderssen, Merete; Rodina, Yulia; Mykhaylyk, Roksolana; Fikkert, Paula – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2014
The "Given-before-New" principle has been identified as one of the strongest pragmatic principles governing how information is organized in adult grammar (Clark & Clark 1977; Gundel 1988). The question of whether child grammars organize information in the same way is as yet unresolved. We address this question by considering the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Foreign Countries, Verbs, Grammar
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Hagen, Åste M. – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of the current study is to determine what language activities Norwegian preschool children took part in, and to examine whether these language activities predict children's language comprehension. We tested children (n = 134) with language measures at age 4/5 and age 5/6 and interviewed their teachers (n = 71) about the kinds of language…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing, Learning Activities
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Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Rodina, Yulia – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
This article investigates the acquisition of object shift in Norwegian child language. We show that object shift is complex derivationally, distributionally, and referentially, and propose a new analysis in terms of IP-internal topicalization. The results of an elicited production study with 27 monolingual Norwegian-speaking children (ages…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Child Language, Monolingualism, Norwegian