Christine Tanz

Biographic Data

ID5886928
NAMEChristine Tanz
GIVEN NAMESChristine
FAMILY NAMETanz
SIGNATURETANZ C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective

    Susan U Philip, Susan Urmston Philips et al.EDITORBOOKLanguage, Gender, and Sex in…2012

  • Asking children to ask; an experimental investigation of the pragmatics of relayed questions

    Open AccessChristine TanzARTICLEJournal of Child Language1983

    Children's apparent ‘errors’ in interpreting ask as tell , incidentally uncovered in C. Chomsky's research on syntactic development, and subsequently interpreted in terms of E. Clark's theory of semantic development, are re-interpreted in the framework of pragmatic development. An experiment is reported in which a single coherent discourse framework is imposed and one pragmatic factor is manipulated: children's knowledge of the answers to the que…

  • Studies in the Acquisition of Deictic Terms

    Scott Delancey, Christine TanzARTICLELanguage1983

    1. The Acquisition of Deictic Terms 2. Deictic and Nondeictic Spatial Relations 3. In Front of and In Back of: Are they learned in backwards order? 4. Personal Pronouns 5. Demonstratives and Deictic Locatives 6. Deictic Verbs of Motion: Easy Come? Easy Go? 7. Conclusions Appendices Bibliography Index

  • Polar exploration

    Open AccessChristine TanzARTICLEJournal of Child Language1977

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  • Learning how ‘it’ works

    Open AccessChristine TanzARTICLEJournal of Child Language1977

    In a replication and extension of a study on the pronoun it by Chipman & de Dardel, 61 children aged 3; 1–5; 2 were asked to carry out instructions of the form ‘There is playdough on the table. Give it to me’. They were also asked ‘Give me some’, and ‘Give me the playdough’. The results indicate that children do observe the distinction between definite and indefinite pronouns as it applies to quantity, from the youngest age studied. It is also ar…

  • Cognitive principles underlying children's errors in pronominal case-marking

    Open AccessChristine TanzARTICLEJournal of Child Language1974

    Data on children's errors in marking pronominal case are surveyed and the pattern of errors described: children substitute objective forms for nominative ones but do not commit substitution errors in the opposite direction. It is proposed that two general cognitive principles underlying language acquisition might explain the uniformities in the data: avoid exceptions, and pay attention to the ends of words. It is further suggested that the last o…

  • Sound Symbolism in Words Relating to Proximity and Distance

    Open AccessChristine TanzARTICLELanguage and Speech1971Cited by: 6References: 5

    The existence of a universal sound symbolism is still controversial. Evidence is presented for a universal sound symbolism in a constellation of words in natural languages relating to proximity and distance. The discussion ranges from words relating to physical distance to terms of temporal and personal distance. Several explanations for the appearance of sound symbolism in this domain are suggested, including one based on their attributes as " s…