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Publication details [#3502]

Frederiksen, Carl H. 1981. Inference in preschool children's conversations: A cognitive perspective. In Green, Judith L. and Cynthia Wallat, eds. Ethnography and language in educational settings. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 303–350.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

child-child conversation | discourse, processing of | inference, L1-acquisition of | pre-school age

Annotation

F. considers some implications of conceptions of inference in ethnographic and linguistic analyses of children's conversations for cognitive theories of discourse comprehension and production.