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Subject Omission and Discourse Anchorage in Early Swedish Child Language

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Author

  • Johan Brandtler

Summary, in English

This paper addresses the question whether a connection exists between subject omission and discourse anchorage in early Swedish child language. By analysing data from three Swedish children, I investigate whether previous mentioning in the discourse affects the occurrence of subject omission. A Danish study by Hamann & Plunkett (1998) reported that no connection between subject omissions and discourse anchorage could be established for Danish. My study partly contradicts their results: in finite utterances, the majority of the omissions found were anchored to the discourse. Furthermore, the results indicate that the development of a Theory of Mind might be of importance for the decrease of subject omission in child language.

Department/s

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Publication/Series

Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax

Document type

Working paper

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • language acquisition
  • theory of mind

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1100-097X