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Download full textMacWhinney, Brian; Bates, Elizabeth – 1976
Children and adults speaking English, Hungarian, and Italian were asked to describe sets of pictures which manipulated the pragmatic category of givenness. The working hypothesis was that there exist rule-governed relations between the perception of certain categorical aspects of the communicative situation and the use of certain conventional…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cross Cultural Studies
