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Publication details [#1984]
Carrell, Patricia L. 1977. Empirical investigations of indirectly conveyed meaning: Assertion versus presupposition in first and second language acquistion. Language Learning 27 (2) : 353–369. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cleft construction, L1-acquisition of | cleft construction, L2-acquisition of | indirectness, L1-acquisition of | indirectness, L2-acquisition of | misunderstanding | presupposition, L1-acquisition of | presupposition, L2-acquisition of | proposition | pseudo-cleft construction, L1-acquisition of | pseudo-cleft construction, L2-acquisition of
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The theoretical linguistic distinction between assertion and presupposition is confirmed by an empirical test with two groups of subjects - young children acquiring English as their first language and adults learning English as a second language. The frequency of perceptual errors is measured as a function of this distinction in clefts and pseudo-clefts.