Pragmatic Factors in Children's Phrasal Coordination.

Greenfield, Patricia M.; Dent, Cathy H.

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Publication Date: 1982-Jun

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Pragmatic Factors in Children's Phrasal Coordination.

Greenfield, Patricia M.; Dent, Cathy H.

Journal of Child Language, v9 n2 p425-43 Jun 1982

Contrasts the syntactic view of forward and backward deletion of base structure elements with the idea that pragmatic factors of situational redundancy and perceptual grouping account for conjunction reduction in children. (EKN)

Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Conjunctions, Deep Structure, Function Words, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Performance, Pragmatics, Sentence Combining, Sentence Structure, Surface Structure

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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