Acquisition of epistemic marking in Estonian and Russian

The article compares the acquisition of epistemic modality in typologically different languages, Estonian and Russian. The longitudinal data of 4 children was used to analyse the first emergence and the further development of lexical markers expressing certainty and uncertainty. Developmental analys...

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Main Authors: Viktoria V. Kazakovskaya, Reili Argus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühing (Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics) 2016-05-01
Series:Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat
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Online Access:http://www.rakenduslingvistika.ee/ajakirjad/index.php/aastaraamat/article/view/ERYa12.04