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Nouns and pronouns

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2019, p.1268-1272

Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;DOI: 10.4135/9781483380810.n419

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  • Title:
    Nouns and pronouns
  • Author: Maillart, Christelle ; Parisse, Christophe
  • Subjects: Humanities and Social Sciences ; Linguistics
  • Is Part Of: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders, 2019, p.1268-1272
  • Description: The noun is a word, such as girl, garden, diner, or chair, that refers to a class of people, places, events, orthings (common noun), or to name a particular thing from these classes (proper noun). It is the most funda-mental grammatical category in all languages of the world, together with verbs. The core semantic propertiesof nouns are similar in all languages. Nouns are mastered by children from the earliest age, and all childrenwith language disorders can use nouns, although they may not be able to master complex noun construc-tions. The pronoun is a word, such as you or it, that is used to refer to someone or something. Actually, pro-nouns are defined as any small set of words that may be substituted for nouns or noun phrases and whosereferents are named or understood in the context. A pronoun is a complex and diverse category and containsvarious subtypes of elements, which are not all present in all languages. The complexity and abstractness ofpronouns make them prone to create difficulties in young children’s language and in children with languageimpairment. Although pronouns are strongly related to nouns (as they often, but not always, stand for a noun),their properties are very different from that of nouns. For this reason, this entry clearly separates the presen-tation of nouns, in the first part, from pronouns, in the second part.
  • Publisher: SAGE Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: DOI: 10.4135/9781483380810.n419
  • Source: HAL SHS: Archive ouverte en Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (Open Access)
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