How Children Ask and Tell A Speech Act Analysis of Children's Requests. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13 /

How Children Ask and Tell [microform] : A Speech Act Analysis of Children's Requests. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13 / J. Kathryn Bock and Mary E. Hornsby.

The ability of children at different ages to distinguish instructions to "ask" from instructions to "tell" and the types of structures used to express these directives were studied. Subjects were 120 children, aged 2 years 6 months to 6 years 6 months. Children were instructed to...

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Main Author: Bock, J. Kathryn
Corporate Author: Stanford University. Department of Linguistics
Other Authors: Hornsby, Mary E.
Format: Microfilm Book
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:
Child Language.
Cognitive Development.
Cognitive Processes.
Communication Skills.
Comprehension.
Intellectual Development.
Interaction Process Analysis.
Language Acquisition.
Language Research.
Linguistic Competence.
Listening Comprehension.
Longitudinal Studies.
Preschool Children.
Psycholinguistics.
Sentence Structure.
Speech Communication.
Syntax.
Verbal Development.
Verbs.

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