Publications

Publication details [#3388]

Folger, Joseph P. and Robin S. Chapman. 1978. A pragmatic analysis of spontaneous imitations. Journal of Child Language 5 (1) : 25–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

imitation | input language | speech act

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

An examination of the correspondence between the imitative behavior of parents and their children and the correspondence between certain speech act functions of parent's utterances and children's imitations.