How children acquire pronouns

This chapter considers the challenges that children face when acquiring pronouns in their first language. These challenges include the way pronouns may shift reference depending on who is the speaker and who is the addressee, how the interpretation and use of pronouns is restricted by syntactic structure, and in what way discourse pragmatics and possibly also the perspective of the conversational partner influence their interpretation and use. In doing so, the chapter refers to research on multiple languages and considers both pronoun production and pronoun comprehension.