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Pronina, Mariia; Prieto, Pilar; Bischetti, Luca; Bambini, Valentina – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Pragmatics lies at the point where language meets the social world and encompasses both the linguistic and the social dimensions of communication. However, the relationship between pragmatic abilities, other language skills, and socio-cognitive aspects such as mentalizing is still a matter of wide debate. This study sets out to investigate the…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Pragmatics, Suprasegmentals, Preschool Children
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Geffen, Susan; Mintz, Toben H. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Word order is a core mechanism for conveying syntactic structure, yet interrogatives usually disrupt canonical word orders. For example, in English, polar interrogatives typically invert the subject and auxiliary verb and insert an utterance-initial "do" if no auxiliary is present. These word order patterns result from differences in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Order, Language Acquisition, Language Processing