Publications

Publication details [#3964]

Greenfield, Patricia Marks. 1978. Informativeness, presupposition, and semantic choice in single-word utterances. In Waterson, Natalie and Catherine E. Snow, eds. The development of communication. J. Wiley. pp. 443–452.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

informativeness in child language | one-word stage | presupposition, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

Study based on the hypothesis that the principle of informativeness can generally explain which situational element is selected for linguistic encoding.

Reprints

Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin. 1979. In Ochs, Elinor and Bambi B. Schieffelin, eds. Developmental pragmatics. Academic Press. pp. 159–166.