Sentence coordination in Japanese and English.

Structural and contextual constraints on coordination in child speech are discussed. An elicited production study with English-and Japanese-speaking children in which these constraints were manipulated is reported. Results show referential coritext to be an important determinant of conjunction structure. In addition, structural parameters also influenced the extent to which redundancy is expressed in utterances. A preliminary model of coordination production based on a. conjunction rule is proposed. The development of coordination in children's language has been investigated from the perspective of structural constraints (e. The structural viewpoint emphasizes the role of linguistic parameters such as sentential versus phrasal coordination and the direction of deletion of redundant elements. On the other hand, the contextual constraint emphasizes non-linguistic parameters, such as temporal sequence of action and physical proximity. In this paper, we will first examine claims made from the structural viewpoint, and argue that the data are