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Bassano, Dominique; And Others – 1988
A study investigated how children report epistemic modality and focused on two main questions: (1) How do children reproduce modal devices that are present in the original (to-be-reported) discourse? and (2) How do children use different linguistic means of quotation--direct, indirect, or other--in this situation? Sixty monolingual French-speaking…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discourse Analysis, Epistemology
Bassano, Dominique; And Others – 1989
This study focused on how French children aged 4, 6, and 8 years evaluate the conditions of use for modal expressions marking certainty and uncertainty in discourse. Children were shown films involving verbal interactions during which one of the protagonists produced a target utterance accusing another character of having performed a deed. Each…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Concept Formation, Discourse Analysis
