Publications

Publication details [#38915]

Marcos, Haydée and C. Ryckebusch. 2004. Speech acts, social context and parent-toddler play between the ages of 1;5 and 2;3. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (5) : 883–897.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | pragmatic competence | social context | speech act

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study tries to demonstrate that pragmatic development in young children between the ages of 1;5 and 2;3, in terms of speech acts, implies the gradual acquisition of the skill to allow for several dimensions of the interaction simultaneously.