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Publication details [#56315]

Tribushinina, Elena. 2012. Comprehension of relevance implicatures by pre-schoolers: The case of adjectives. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (14) : 2035–2044.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adjective | implicature | mother-child conversation | pre-school age | relevance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Drawing on two experiments in which toddler implicature reading was a required step in a shopping game, this article confirms that even preschoolers (from 2:6 onwards) understand relevance implicatures based on adjectives, especially when supported by joint attention.