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ERIC Number: EJ056717
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1971
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Surface Structure and the Topic-Comment Distinction: A Developmental Study
Hornby, Peter A.
Child Development, 42, 6, 1975-88, Dec 71
In this study the part of the sentence which constitutes what the speaker is talking about is called the topic" of the sentence, and the rest of the sentence is the comment", which provides new information about the topic. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary School Students, Function Words, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Pictorial Stimuli, Sentence Structure
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