01290nam a2200217Ia 4500 CTU_158197 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 120 401.93 H627 Hickmann, Maya Children’s discourse : person, space and time across languages Maya Hickmann Cambridge,New York Cambridge University Press 2003 Psycholinguist Maya Hickmann presents an original comparative study of discourse development in English, French, German, and Chinese. Hickmann discusses the main theoretical issues in the study of first language acquisition and provides a wide review of available studies in three domains of child language: person, space and time. Her findings concern the rhythm of language acquisition, its formal and functional determinants, and its universal vs. language-specific aspects. The conclusions stress the importance of relating sentence and discourse determinants of acquisition in a crosslinguistic perspective Language acquisition,Discourse analysis, Narrative,Space and time in language,Lý thuyết ngôn ngữ học Nguyên Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ