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Publication details [#36555]

Shatz, Marilyn and Anne Watson O'Reilly. 1990. Conversational or communicative skill? A reassessment of two-year-old' behaviour in miscommunication episodes. Journal of Child Language 17 (1) : 131–146.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication breakdown | communicative competence | conversational competence | repair | request

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that two-year-old children are often motivated to repair miscommunication in conversations with their parents, when they have not achieved overt desired behavior from them.