Показателни местоимения и пространствен дейксис
Demonstrative pronouns and space deixis in early ontogenesis

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to reveal how English and Bulgarian children acquire demonstrative pronouns and pronominal adverbials as markers of spatial deixis. The observed similarities in the English and Bulgarian data are due to universal tendencies while the differences reflect language specificity. Detailed analysis of the Bulgarian data proves that the acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and prolocatives is preceded by a developmental stage in which transitional deictic systems with various types of non-standard meanings are to be observed. During their early linguistic development (between 2;0 and 2;7 years of age), some of the Bulgarian subjects demonstrated strong individual differences in the ways they used demonstratives and prolocatives.

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