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Chen Zhao; Ludovica Serratrice; Elena Lieven; Circle Steele; Nivedita Malik; Yi An; Emily Hayden; Jo Neumegen; Thea Cameron-Faulkner – First Language, 2024
Language development can be framed as the process of learning how to mean (Halliday, 1975). From this perspective, the role of communicative function is central to the language-learning process with development being guided by interaction with experienced others. In the current study, we present a detailed analysis of the communicative functions…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Socialization
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Listanti, Andrea; Torregrossa, Jacopo – First Language, 2023
Heritage language (HL) speakers seem to diverge from monolingual speakers in the acquisition of syntax-discourse interface phenomena. However, most of the studies reporting this finding do not make any distinction between different types of syntax-discourse interface structures. Therefore, it is an open question whether these structures are…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Acquisition, Verbs, Narration