지시어 ‘이’, ‘그’, ‘저’의 지시 기능 습득 과정

Abstract

This study is aimed to investigate babies and infants' acquisition of the function of deictics and their development of demonstrative ability. 24~35 months old babies usually acquire deictic function to demonstrate the objects which exist in the place where conversation is conducted. Sometimes, babies use deictics to demonstrate the objects which do not exist in the place where conversation is conducted, but all the babies do not acquire such a function. Most infants learn such a function as to use deictics to demonstrate the objects which do not exist in the place where conversation is conducted or which are contained in conversation. As a baby's demonstrative ability is developed, its demonstrative performance come to intensified in the order of ‘demonstrative pronoun > demonstrative pronoun + noun > demonstrative adjective + noun > demonstrative adjective + determinative noun phrase.’ Babies start to learn how to combine demonstrative pronoun, ‘demonstrative pronoun + noun,’ and ‘demonstrative adjective + noun’ while six-year-old infants start to learn how to combine ‘demonstrative adjective + determinative noun phrase.’ I have found that babies and infants' demonstrative ability is developed in such a manner as to increase the accuracy of their demonstration.