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The Acquisition of Intensifiers - Emphatic Reflexives in English and German Child Language (Hardcover)
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The Acquisition of Intensifiers - Emphatic Reflexives in English and German Child Language (Hardcover)
Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]
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Insa Gulzow analyzes the acquisition of intensifiers by children
acquiring German or English as their first language. Based on a
comparative analysis of intensifiers and related expressions in the
two languages, she examines the longitudinal production data of six
German-speaking and six English-speaking children with regard to
when and in which contexts the intensifiers German selbst/selber
and English x-self (myself, yourself, himself, etc.) appear. As
intensifiers evoke alternatives to the referent of their focus and
relate a central referent to more peripheral alternative referents,
they are an important linguistic means to structure the
participants of a child's early discourse. By integrating
intensifiers into their utterances, children can identify
themselves as central. The notion of being included or excluded in
a certain state of affairs is relevant for children when
interacting with their parents and/or other children. In the course
of development, children acquire a number of both linguistic and
non-linguistic skills that characterize them as increasingly
independent and competent agents. In this process, intensifiers are
an important linguistic device with which children can negotiate
and comment on their participation in a given event. The three
parts of the volume consist first, of a detailed analysis of the
intensifiers selbst/selber and x-self and related expressions such
as allein and by x-self in the two languages. Special attention is
given to the fact that in English, intensifiers and reflexive
pronouns are identical expressions while in German they are
distinct. Second, previous results of comprehension studies are
carefully reviewed in order to relate them to the findings in
longitudinal production data. Third, a detailed analysis of the
children's early use of intensifiers and related expressions is
presented.
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