dislocations and other peripheral elements in child language

[Cecile De Cat]

Dear InfoChildes

I am writing to ask if anyone knows of studies of dislocations and other peripheral elements in child language.  By this, I mean any type of selected or unselected argument that appears outside of the "core of the sentence", typically with a dislocation intonation.  The two examples below are from adult French.  The peripheral elements are capitalised (capitals not being used here to indicate focus).

(1)     	elle est folle, CETTE FILLE
	she is   mad, this     girl  
(2) 	MOI, LES HISTOIRES, j'aime bien
	me    the stories         I like   well

A while back, there was a message from Lawrence Cheung on the Linguist List, inquiring about languages with right-dislocations.  This is, in part, what I am interested in, but in the field of child language, and in both directions (left and right).

Thanks a lot for your help


Cecile De Cat
University of York