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Direct linkCollins, Peter – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2004
On the basis of 572 examples taken from seven million-word corpora of written English the present study--which complements the spoken data-based studies of Oberlander & Delin (1996) and Weinert & Miller (1996)--explores the relationship between information structure and discourse role with reversed what-clefts. The study confirms the typically…
Descriptors: English, Written Language, Sentences, Sentence Structure
Peer reviewedCollins, Peter – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1993
Analysis of natural speech from 6-year-old (n=10) and 10-year-old (n=10) children suggests that, during later language development, the complexity of structures at the group/phrase level increases. There are also developments in discourse, including increased sensitivity to the role of topic-selection in developing the shape of a text, and to…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
