Children's Comprehension of Their Mothers' Question-Directives.

Shatz, Marilyn

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Publication Date: 1978

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Children's Comprehension of Their Mothers' Question-Directives

Shatz, Marilyn

Journal of Child Language, 5, 1, 39-46, Feb 78

This work investigated the young child's ability to respond appropriately to the intended, as opposed to the literal, meaning of one class of such utterances, requests for action. An action-based response heuristic is proposed to explain the apparent ability of two-year-olds to deal with indirect speech acts. (Author/SW)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Parent Child Relationship, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Responses, Speech Communication

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