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Publication details [#10536]

Brédart, Serge. 1984. Children's interpretation of referential ambiguities and pragmatic inference. Journal of Child Language 11 : 665–672.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | ambiguity | first language acquisition | reference | school age

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

An analysis of an experiment where second, fourth, and sixth graders are offered ambiguous referential messages. The choice of referent the children make, shows that they prefer a referent with only the feature described in the message rather than a referent with this feature plus another one. No age-related differences were found.