Publications

Publication details [#57448]

Allen, Shanley E.M., Barbora Skarabela and Thomas C. Scott-Phillips. 2013. Joint attention helps explain why children omit new referents. Journal of Pragmatics 56 (1) : 5–14.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | L1-acquisition | maxim of conversation | pragmatic competence | referent

Language as a subject

Inuktitut

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Whilst joint attention helps to account for new referent omisson in children acquiring Inuktitut (2;0–3;6), this omission is not linked to any pragmatic failure and children appear to adapt their messages for interlocutors after the Gricean Quantity Maxim.