Structural and Interactional Aspects of Adverbial Sentences in English Mother-Child Interactions: An Analysis of Two Dense Corpora

Autor/inn/en	De Ruiter, Laura E.; Lemen, Heather C. P.; Lieven, Elena V. M.; Brandt, Silke; Theakston, Anna L.
Titel	Structural and Interactional Aspects of Adverbial Sentences in English Mother-Child Interactions: An Analysis of Two Dense Corpora
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 48 (2021) 6, S.1150-1184 (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (De Ruiter, Laura E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000920000641
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Parent Child Relationship; English; Comparative Analysis; Language Usage; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Pragmatics; Computational Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Foreign Countries; Language Variation; Difficulty Level; Sentence Structure; Mothers; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; English language; Englisch; Sprachgebrauch; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Pragmalinguistik; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Ausland; Sprachenvielfalt; Schwierigkeitsgrad; Satzbau; Satzstruktur; Mother; Mutter; Großbritannien
Abstract	We analysed both structural and functional aspects of sentences containing the four adverbials "after", "before", "because", and "if" in two dense corpora of parent-child interactions from two British English-acquiring children (2;00-4;07). In comparing mothers' and children's usage we separate out the effects of frequency, cognitive complexity and pragmatics in explaining the course of acquisition of adverbial sentences. We also compare these usage patterns to stimuli used in a range of experimental studies and show how differences may account for some of the difficulties that children have shown in experiments. In addition, we report descriptive data on various aspects of adverbial sentences that have not yet been studied as a resource for future investigations. (As Provided).
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