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Publication details [#23065]

Rappaport-Liebling, Cheryl. 1988. Means to an end: Knowledge of directives during the elementary school years. Discourse Processes 11 (1) : 79–99.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | directness | first language acquisition | school age

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

A contrastive analysis of first-, third-, and fifth-grade students' production of, comprehension of, and reasoning about direct and indirect directives reveals that children's knowledge of directives continues to develop during the elementary school years.