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Publication details [#1501]

Bloom, Lois, Lorraine Rocissano and Lois Hood. 1976. Adult-child discourse: Developmental interaction between information processing and linguistic knowledge. Cognitive Psychology 8 : 521–552.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | context | information processing | input language | linguistic knowledge

Journal WWW

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Annotation

Discourse interaction between adult and child is examined in terms of the content of their utterances, and the linguistic and contextual relations between their messages, in order to investigate how children use the information from adults' input sentences to form contingent responses.