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Wagner, Laura; Vega-Mendoza, Mariana; Van Horn, Suzanne – First Language, 2014
Speakers must command different linguistic registers to index various social-discourse elements, including the identity of the addressee. Previous work found that English-learning children could link registers to appropriate addressees by 5 years. Two experiments found that better cues to the linguistic form or to the social meaning of register…
Descriptors: Cues, Social Influences, English, Spanish