Come and go reconsidered: Children's use of deictic verbs in contrived situations
1976; Academic Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0022-5371(76)90058-x
ISSN1878-4097
Autores Tópico(s)Reading and Literacy Development
ResumoA production-based method of investigating children's understanding of deictic verbs is described. Use of come/go and bring/take by 4- to 7-year-olds in experimentally controlled deictic situations is compared with the results ofClark and Garnica's (1974) comprehension method with the same verbs. The production data indicate that (1) age of acquisition of these verbs is considerably younger than previously reported, (2) bring and take are acquired later than the come/go pair, and (3) acquisition of these verbs involves mapping the appropriate words onto preconceived features of situations, rather than the abstraction of the semantic features underlying each verb.
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