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Publication details [#10681]

Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. 1982. Ask and it shall be given unto you: Children's requests. Georgetown Univerity Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982 : 235–245.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Annotation

The central question the author asks is: how do children progress from primitive means of making requests (direct requests) to the diversity of strategies observed in adult speech?