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Date: 12-Dec-2011
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The acquisition of causal connectives: van Veen


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From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp [lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The acquisition of causal connectives: van Veen

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Title: The acquisition of causal connectives 
Subtitle: The role of parental input and cognitive complexity 
Series Title: LOT dissertation series  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	
Author: Rosie van Veen

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460930690 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 


Abstract:

During language acquisition children must learn to use causal connectives,
such as because. Acquiring these linguistics markers of causal coherence 
relations between utterances can be regarded as learning one of the most 
important 'building blocks' of language at a discourse level. This study 
investigates how children's use of causal connectives develops. It takes a 
cross-linguistic approach by investigating the English causal connective 
because as well as its German counterpart weil and the Dutch equivalents 
want and omdat. Growth curve analysis is used to track young children's 
production of causal connectives in longitudinal corpora. This method is used 
to investigate two factors that may influence connective acquisition. First, the 
parental input: does parental connective use and parental scaffolding through 
why-questions influence the development of causal connectives? Second, 
the cognitive complexity of the causal relation: does the relative complexity 
of objective and subjective causal relations influence the subsequent 
development of these relations? As an additional measure, this study also 
includes an innovative eye-tracking experiment - based on the preferential 
looking paradigm - that test young children's comprehension of causal 
relations. Overall, results show that connective acquisition is an intricate 
system in which cognitive complexity and parent-child interaction play an 
important role. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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