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Sentence coordination in Japanese and English*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Kenji Hakuta ,
Jill de Villiers  and
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Kenji Hakuta
Affiliation:
Yale University
Jill de Villiers
Affiliation:
Smith College
Helen Tager-Flusberg
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts/Boston
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Abstract

Structural and contextual constraints on coordination in child speech are discussed. An elicited production study with English- and Japanese-speaking children in which these constraints were manipulated is reported. Results show referential context to be an important determinant of conjunction structure. In addition, structural parameters also influenced the extent to which redundancy is expressed in utterances. A preliminary model of coordination production based on a conjunction rule is proposed.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1982 , pp. 193 - 207
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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