Dissertation Research: Definiteness in Finnish Language Acquisition

摘要 定与不定表达的发展 芬兰语是一种缺少冠词的语言， 通过检查从3-，4-，5-， 7岁和10岁的母语为芬兰语的儿童和成人。 这些数据将与来自美国人的类似数据进行比较。 还有包含文章的语言（英语、德语和西班牙语） 作为一种非ariticle轴承语言（土耳其语），以确定如何 以及芬兰语作为一种表达 以各种方式确定，影响孩子的 这一语义/语用范畴的习得和使用。 在 比较了有物品和无物品的获得， 此外，这项研究还将进一步提供 深入了解儿童带来的基本操作原则 收购任务。 这项研究也开始填补 语篇导向的芬兰语习得研究的空白， 侧重于比以前处理的更大的年龄范围 也

ABSTRACT The development of the expression of definite versus indefinite reference in Finnish, a language which lacks articles, will be studied by examining narrative data collected from 3-, 4-, 5-, 7-, and 10-year-old native Finnish-speaking children and adults. This data will be compared to similar data from speakers of article-bearing languages (English, German, and Spanish), as well as one non-ariticle-bearing language (Turkish), to determine how and the degree to which Finnish, a Language which expresses definiteness in a variety of ways, influences the child's acquisition and use of this semantic/pragmatic category. In comparing the acquisition of article-bearing and non-article- bearing languages, this research will also provide further insight into the basic Operating Principles that children bring to the acquisition task. This research also begins to fill the gap of discourse-oriented studies on the acquisition of Finnish, focussing on a much larger age range than previously dealt with as well.