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Given-new Distinction

The Given-New Distinction is an information-structural principle that differentiates between elements of discourse presented as presupposed or recoverable from context (Given) and those introduced as novel or assertive (New) within a clause or utterance.

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Toward a taxonomy of given-new information

Ellen F. Prince · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1981 · 1.3K citations

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The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions

Danielle Matthews, Elena Lieven, Anna Theakston et al. · Applied Psycholinguistics · 2006 · 271 citations · Full text

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Contrastive focus, givenness and the unmarked status of “discourse-new”

Elisabeth Selkirk · Acta Linguistica Hungarica · 2008 · 239 citations · Full text

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Language and Consciousness

Wallace Chafe · Language · 1974 · 231 citations

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Prosody and information structure in a tone language: an investigation of Mandarin Chinese

Iris Chuoying Ouyang, Elsi Kaiser · Language Cognition and Neuroscience · 2013 · 164 citations

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Authors

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  1. JΚ
    Jeanette Κ. Gundel

    University of Minnesota, United States

    2 publications · 158 citations

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  2. CF
    Christian F. Hempelmann

    Purdue University West Lafayette, United States

    1 publications · 76 citations

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  3. TB
    Tina Bennett‐Kastor

    Wichita State University, United States

    1 publications · 44 citations

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  4. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    1 publications · 271 citations

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  5. JT
    Josef Taglicht

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    1 publications · 13 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Amherst College

    Amherst Center, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    239 citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    542 citations

  3. Philipps University of Marburg

    Marburg, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    115 citations

  4. Institute of Linguistics

    Moscow, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    89 citations

  5. Institute of Linguistics

    Beijing, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    89 citations

  6. University of Hawaii System

    Honolulu, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  7. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  8. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    328 citations

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  1. Journal of Child Language

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  2. Personnel Psychology

    1 publications · 32 citations

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  3. Paper in Linguistics

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  4. eScholarship (California Digital Library)

    Repository · 1 publications · 76 citations

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  5. Applied Psycholinguistics

    1 publications · 271 citations

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