The development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The development of locative expressions in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish

Published:1979-10 Issue:3 Volume:6 Page:529-545
ISSN:0305-0009
Container-title:Journal of Child Language
language:en
Short-container-title:J. Child Lang.

Author:

Johnston Judith R.,Slobin Dan I.

Abstract

ABSTRACTThe ability of children between the ages of 2; 0 and 4; 8 to produce locative pre- or postpositions was investigated in English, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, and Turkish. Across languages, there was a general order of development: (1) ‘in’, ‘on’, ‘under’, and ‘beside’, (2) ‘between’, ‘back’ and ‘front’ with featured objects, (3) ‘back’ and ‘front’ with non-featured objects. This order of development is discussed in terms of nonlinguistic growth in conceptual ability. Language-specific differences in the general pattern of development are discussed in terms of a number of linguistic factors which may facilitate or retard the child's discovery of the linguistic means for encoding concepts.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Language and Linguistics

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