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Publication details [#45777]

Bernicot, Josie, Virginie Laval and Stéphanie Chaminaud. 2007. Nonliteral language forms in children: In what order are they acquired in pragmatics and metapragmatics? Journal of Pragmatics 39 (12) : 2115–2132.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | figurative meaning | metapragmatic awareness | pragmatic competence

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study demonstrates that children's nonliteral language understanding (pragmatic abilities) and metapragmatic knowledge are learned according to different orders.