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Publication details [#52735]

Rattray, Catherine and Andrew Tolmie. 2008. Young children's detection and decoding of ironic intonation. Psychology of Language and Communication 12 (1) : 29–54.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | code | intonation | irony, processing of | language, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Versita

Annotation

This study suggests that young children's (working memory) capacity to track the belief implications of conversations using ironic intonations substantially ameliorated between 3 and 4 years of age.