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Publication details [#10245]

Wootton, Anthony J. 1981. Two request forms of four year olds. Journal of Pragmatics 5 (6) : 511–523.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | requesting, L1-acquisition of

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Annotation

The occurrence of declarative 'I want' and interrogative 'Can I' request forms is examined in the natural language use of four-year-old children with their parents in the home.