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Direct linkDe Cat, Cecile – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
This study investigates the acquisition of the discourse/pragmatic notion of topic, based on an experimental task eliciting topic vs. focus subjects. In spoken French, these are obligatorily realized as dislocated vs. nondislocated noun phrases. The results provide overwhelming evidence for the early mastery of topic, even by the youngest children…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, French, Preschool Children
