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Abbeduto, Leonard and S. Rosenberg. 1980. The communicative competence of mildly retarded adults. Applied Psycholinguistics 1 (4) : 387–403.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
cohesion | communicative competence | illocution | indirect speech act | retardation | triadic interaction | turn-taking
Journal WWW
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Annotation

A. and R. examine triadic interchanges in mildly retarded adults. Normal turn-taking, tying of turns to previous utterances, and successful uptake of illocutionary force is reported. Few indirect speech acts are found.