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Publication details [#9326]

Takahara, Paul O. 1979. Pragmatic functions of the given/new contract in child discourse. Language Sciences 1 (2) : 249–272.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

appropriateness in child language | given vs. new information, L1-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English, L1-acquisition of | Japanese

Journal WWW

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Annotation

T. investigates the functional nature of the given/new contract (concentrating on the pragmatic factors of situational and contextual appropriateness) in the communicative processes in interactions of English, American and Japanese children from the two-word stage onward.