Показателни местоимения и местоименни наречия в ранната онтогенеза: полско-български паралели
Demonstrative pronouns and adverbials in early ontogeny: Polish-Bulgarian parallels

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to review how Bulgarian and Polish children acquire demonstrative pronouns and pronominal adverbials as markers of spatial deixis. According to a universal tendency, demonstratives are among the earliest pro-words that children acquire. Previous investigations show that in the acquisition of demonstrative pronouns and pronominal adverbials these are initially used in their non-contrastive functions; besides, the acquisition of demonstratives is preceded by a developmental stage in which transitional deictic systems with various types of non-standard meanings are observed. The analysis of the Bulgarian and Polish data aims at looking for universal tendencies as well as revealing language specific and individual differences.

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