dislocations and other peripheral elements in child language

[William B. Snyder]

I believe Marc-Ariel Friedemann, as a graduate student at the University
of Geneva, wrote a paper a few years back arguing that right-dislocation
structures were unusually frequent in the child French of Philippe
(Suppes/Smith/Leveille, CHILDES), as compared to adult usage.
Unfortunately I don't know the reference off hand - possibly in GenGenP
(the linguistics working paper series at Geneva).

- William

Prof. William B. Snyder
Department of Linguistics
University of Connecticut

On Mon, 17 May 1999, Cecile De Cat wrote:

> 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
>
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