TY  - CHAP
A1  - Kühnast, Milena
T1  - Production and comprehension of intersentential pronominal reference in early child Bulgarian : an experimental study
T2  - Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language : proceedings of the Conference on Intersentential Pronominal Reference in Child and Adult Language, December 1 - 2, 2006, Berlin / Dagmar Bittner & Natalia Gagarina (ed.)
N2  - The paper presents results from a combined production and comprehension study addressing some of the factors which guide the establishment of intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult Bulgarian. We investigate the time course and different stages in the acquisition of null, personal and demonstrative pro-nouns and their specific anaphoric functions. We target possible age-induced changes in the salience hierarchy of referent features such as animacy and grammatical role. Following the general consent in the field of anaphora research, we assume a division of labour between different pronominal forms with respect to the salience of their referents. Based on the data of Bulgarian preschool children we investigate the validity of this form-function relation, its language-specific shape and its developmentally induced variation. The results reveal an initial prominence of animate referents which later on develops into preference for animate subjects. Although the investigated 3 to 5 year old Bulgarian children do not stick to the adult anaphora resolution strategy, they comply with the principle of the reversed mapping within the range of tested pronouns and react according to their salience criteria which promote animate subjects as the most prominent co-reference candidates.
KW  - Spracherwerb
KW  - Kindersprache
KW  - Referenz <Linguistik>
KW  - Sprachverstehen
KW  - Referenzidentität
KW  - Bulgarisch
Y1  - 2007
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31016
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310165
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/185.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 48
SP  - 171
EP  - 202
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
CY  - Berlin
ER  -