In this study, a purpose-built corpus, containing both child-produced and child-directed speech, is used to conduct a longitudinal examination of antonym use among children from the age of two to five years old. Previous research has tended to approach antonym acquisition using either elicitation techniques or corpora of printed adult language. In contrast, this research focuses on the speech of preschool children in naturally-occurring interactions. The discourse functions of antonymy in child-produced and child-directed language are quantified and compared with those identified in adult, written English (Jones 2002). Despite its complexity, Ancillary Antonymy is found to be most common in child-produced speech, even from the age of two, perhaps because of its particular usefulness in structuring ideas and discourse. This study presents a detailed inter-corpus comparison, assesses the discourse functions of antonymy at different stages of childhood, and discusses the correlation between antonym use in child-directed and child-produced speech.
2024. Funkcje par wyrazów ze zbiorów opozycji semantycznych wieloczłonowych w zdaniach z tekstów Narodowego Korpusu Języka Polskiego. Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej 58
Mikołajczak-Matyja , Nawoja
2021. Funkcje pary leksemów mężczyzna i kobieta w zdaniach z Narodowego Korpusu Języka Polskiego i ich zastosowanie do badań nad stereotypami płci. Prace Językoznawcze 23:3 ► pp. 115 ff.
Syrett, Kristen
2024. Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives. Language and Linguistics Compass 18:6
Tat Cheung, Hin, Chia-Ling Hsu & Benjamin Ts'ou
2024. The role of vocabulary and grammar in the listening text comprehension of school-age Cantonese-speaking children with developmental language disorder. Brain and Language 248 ► pp. 105360 ff.
Afreh, Esther Serwaah & Harriet Appiah Kyeremeh
2023. The Discourse Functions of Antonyms in Faceless by Amma Darko. E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences► pp. 235 ff.
Jeffries, Lesley
2022. Equating and Contrasting: Constructing Equivalence and Opposition in Poems. In The Language of Contemporary Poetry [Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style, ], ► pp. 103 ff.
Hassanein, Hamada & Mohammad Mahzari
2021. A taxonomy of antonymy in Arabic: Egyptian and Saudi proverbs in comparison. Open Linguistics 7:1 ► pp. 200 ff.
2021. Difficulty with language comprehension and arithmetic word problems due to hearing impairment: Analysis and a possible remedy through a new Android-based assistive technology. In Data Analytics in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare, ► pp. 29 ff.
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Hassanein, Hamada
2018. Discourse functions of opposition in Classical Arabic: The case in Ḥadīth Genre. Lingua 201 ► pp. 18 ff.
Hassanein, Hamada
2023. A tale of two tool(kit)s: from canonical antonymy to non-canonical opposition in the Qur’anic discourse. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 59:3 ► pp. 577 ff.
Hassanein, Hamada
2023. Rendition of Noncanonical Opposition: A Case Study of Qur’anic Composition in Bilingual Transposition. WORD 69:3 ► pp. 253 ff.
Tzeng, Christina Y., Lynne C. Nygaard & Laura L. Namy
2017. The Specificity of Sound Symbolic Correspondences in Spoken Language. Cognitive Science 41:8 ► pp. 2191 ff.
Westby, Carol
2017. When Do Children Understand “Opposite”?. Word of Mouth 28:3 ► pp. 5 ff.
Novogrodsky, Rama, Catherine Caldwell‐Harris, Sarah Fish & Robert J. Hoffmeister
2014. The Development of Antonym Knowledge in American Sign Language (ASL) and Its Relationship to Reading Comprehension in English. Language Learning 64:4 ► pp. 749 ff.
Wu, Shuqiong
2014. The metonymic interpretation of Chinese antonym co-occurrence constructions: the case of you X you Y. Language Sciences 45 ► pp. 189 ff.
Wu, Shuqiong
2021. A corpus-based study of the Chinese synonymous approximativesshangxia, qianhouandzuoyou. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 17:2 ► pp. 411 ff.
Tribushinina, Elena, Huub van den Bergh, Marianne Kilani-Schoch, Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Ineta Dabašinskienė, Gordana Hrzica, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Sabrina Noccetti & Wolfgang Dressler
2013. The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input. First Language 33:6 ► pp. 594 ff.
Davies, Matt
2012. A New Approach to Oppositions in Discourse. Journal of English Linguistics 40:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
Tribushinina, Elena & Elena Dubinkina
2012. Adjective production by Russian-speaking children with specific language impairment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics 26:6 ► pp. 554 ff.
Gries, Stefan Th.
2009. What is Corpus Linguistics?. Language and Linguistics Compass 3:5 ► pp. 1225 ff.
Muehleisen, Victoria & Maho Isono
2009. Antonymous adjectives in Japanese discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 41:11 ► pp. 2185 ff.
Murphy, M. Lynne, Carita Paradis, Caroline Willners & Steven Jones
2009. Discourse functions of antonymy: A cross-linguistic investigation of Swedish and English. Journal of Pragmatics 41:11 ► pp. 2159 ff.
EunJooLee
2008. An analysis of corpus-based research on TEFL and applied linguistics.. English Teaching 63:2 ► pp. 283 ff.
Montgomery, Derek E., Maren Anderson & Elizabeth Uhl
2008. Interference control in preschoolers: factors influencing performance on the day–night task. Infant and Child Development 17:5 ► pp. 457 ff.
Jones, Steven
2006. A lexico-syntactic analysis of antonym co-occurrence in spoken English. Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language, Discourse Communication Studies 26:2 ► pp. 191 ff.
Jones, Steven
2007. ‘Opposites’ in discourse: A comparison of antonym use across four domains. Journal of Pragmatics 39:6 ► pp. 1105 ff.
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