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Pragmatic Patterns in Child Syntax

Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This paper will begin with an examination of the role of pragmatic patterns in the syntax of two Hungarian children, Moni and Zoli, and will conclude with a comparison of these data with results form other languages. It will be necessary to consider both wordbased and pragmatic patterns, since some word combinations what appear to be pragmatic may actually be word-based. Despite various methodological difficulties involved in the study of the learning of pragmatic patterns based on expressive focusing and logical focusing (MacWhinney, 1975), these patterns are central to Hungarian syntax (Dezs¨ø, 1972) and must somehow be learned by the child
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1559503368
FWCI: 2.458
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Cited by: 76
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