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Publication details [#14213]
Guidetti, Michèle. 2000. Pragmatic study of agreement and refusal messages in young French children. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (5) : 569–582.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
The analysis reveals that the messages in question vary with respect to age (21 to 27 months), message type (agreement or refusal), and speech act type (assertive or directive), demonstrating that by the age of two, children are fully capable of expressing agreement and refusal verbally and/or gesturally via assertives or directives.