Anaphora Resolution in Children and Adults : An Experimental Study of Mature Speakers and Learners of Basque / Maialen Iraola Azpiroz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iraola Azpiroz, Maialen, Author.

Series:

Language development (Tübingen, Germany) ; Band 34.

Language Development 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

null and overt subject pronouns.

intrasentential anaphora contexts in Basque.

overt referential devices.

experimental offline task.

Local Subjects:

null and overt subject pronouns.

intrasentential anaphora contexts in Basque.

overt referential devices.

experimental offline task.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2015

Biography/History:

Dr. Maialen Iraola Azpiroz is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Kaiserslautern with a postdoctoral fellowship from the Basque Government.

Summary:

This work focuses on the comprehension of null and overt subject pronouns in intrasentential anaphora contexts in Basque, a language which employs overt referential devices that fall out of the scope of what traditionally counts as third person pronouns, namely the demonstrative hura 'that' and the quasipronoun bera '(s)he (him/herself)'. Data from native adults obtained from two experimental offline tasks on the referential properties and the discourse features of null and overt pronouns set a baseline for comparison with a) the i nsights reported in descriptive grammars and with b) developmental data from 6-8-year-old child L1 and child L2.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Pronominal anaphora 2. Pronouns in child language 3. The interpretation of null and overt subject pronouns in Basque 4. Reference of null and overt subject pronouns in Basque 5. Conclusions References

Notes:

[1. Auflage]

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783823379294

3823379291

Publisher Number:

9783823379294