We used the "given-new" procedure originally used by MacWhinney and Bates [MacWhinney, B. and Bates, E., 1978, Sentential devices for conveying giveness and newness: a cross-cultural developmental study, “Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior”, 17, pp. 539-558] in a chrono-linguistic study of normal children and adults. In this task, native speakers are asked to describe a series of three-picture cartoons depicting simple transitive and intransitive events.
- Bates & Friederici & Wulfeck (2004), a pag.269