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Publication details [#36432]

Rubin, Donald L., Lee Galda and Anthony D. Pellegrini. 1989. Development of informational adequacy in speech and writing. Applied Psycholinguistics 10 (4) : 387–399.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | communication | informativeness in child language | speech | writing

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0142-7164

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with the development of children's informational adequacy in oral and written communication. Older children appear to display greater informational adequacy in writing, and children's performance in written communication appears to depend on social cognitive ability.