Publications
Publication details [#57351]
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag
Annotation
This paper examines children's pragmatic development by analyzing Mandarin-speaking toddlers' requests in interactions with their parents. Simple imperatives and WANT statements, linked to awareness of parents’ interactional cooperativeness, appear children’s two primal request forms.