Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ579715
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Publication Date: 1998
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Surface Cues and the Development of Given/New Interpretation.
Chen, Shu-Hui Eileen
Applied Psycholinguistics, v19 n4 p553-582 Dec 1998
The pragmatic function of conveying given and new information is one of the most important universal communicative functions that language serves. This study investigates how Mandarin-speaking children and adults utilize surface cues of word order, marked grammatical structure, and emphatic stress to determine whether information is given or new in isolated conditions. (Author/ER)
Descriptors: Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer), Determiners (Languages), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Mandarin Chinese, Morphology (Languages), Pictorial Stimuli, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Stress (Phonology), Syntax
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
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