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Publication details [#54782]

Wałaszewska, Ewa. 2011. Broadening and narrowing in lexical development: How relevance theory can account for children's overextensions and underextensions. Journal of Pragmatics 43 (1) : 314–336.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | overextension | pragmatics | relevance theory | underextension

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores the similarities between young children's over- and underextensions and the lexical pragmatic processes of broadening and narrowing as described in relevance theory.