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From: Daniel Davies < ddavies at cambridge.org >
Subject: The Use of Definite and Indefinite Reference in Young Children:
Maratsos
 

	
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Title: The Use of Definite and Indefinite Reference in Young Children 
Subtitle: An Experimental Study of Semantic Acquisition 
Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Michael M. Maratsos

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521113281 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 14.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521113281 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 26.99


Abstract:

Note: This is the re-issue of a previously published book.

The book presents a series of studies that probe young children's knowledge
of a relatively well-defined, abstract semantic realm, that of definite and
indefinite reference. Topics investigated include children's knowledge of
the difference between referring to particular objects (e.g. I have a dog,
which refers to a particular dog) and no particular objects at all (e.g. I
don't have a dog, which makes reference to no particular dog) and their
knowledge of how to account for the knowledge of their listeners  in
situations, e.g. in which they have in mind a particular reference but
their listen does not. Because overlapping problems are investigated by a
wide variety of methods, it is possible to verify more certainly the true
level of children's performance. At the same time, the investigation by
many methods illustrates how methodological problems may systematically
affect and at times even distort our picture of development if not
carefully allowed for. 



1. Theoretical background; 
2. Studying the acquisition of articles; 
3. A brief introduction to the design and procedures; 
4. Tests of comprehension; 
5. Stores: a description of the tests; 
6. Results from the systematic stories, imitations with expansions; 
7. Results from the miscellaneous stories: other analyses; 
8. Games; 
9. General discussion: problems in adult response; 
Appendices. 


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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