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Publication details [#36582]

Anderson, Anne H., Aileen Clark and James Mullin. 1991. Introducing information in dialogues: Forms of introduction chosen by young speakers and the responses elicited from young listeners. Journal of Child Language 18 (3) : 663–687.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | communicative efficiency | dialogue | mutual knowledge

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study on the establishment of mutual knowledge in young speakers' dialogue, argues that young speakers' preference of introduction forms that are least likely to elicit effective listener response, hampers succesful communicative dialogue.