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Empirical Investigations of Indirectly Conveyed Meaning: Assertion versus Presupposition in First and Second Language Acquisition.

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Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1977

The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition was empirically tested with two groups of subjects, young children acquiring English as their first language and adults acquiring English as a second language. (Author)

Descriptors: Adult Students, Child Language, English, English (Second Language)