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Publication details [#37602]

Becker, Judith A. and Patricia C. Smenner. 1986. The spontaneous use of thank you by preschoolers as a function of sex, socioeconomic status, and listener status. Language in Society 15 (4) : 537–545.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

listener | pre-school age | sex | social status

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper assesses the frequency of preschoolers' spontaneous use of 'thank you' in a familiar setting without their parents' presence as a function of sex, socioeconomic status and listener status.