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Steffensen, Margaret S. 1978. Satisfying inquisitive adults: Some simple methods of answering yes/no questions. Journal of Child Language 5 (2) : 221–236.
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English

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It is suggested that young children do not understand the semantics of the yes/no question form nor of the affirmative and negative particles. As a result their answers are not appropriate by the conventions of adult speech and, realizing that he must verbalize, each child adopts his own system, a phenomenon that S. calls 'pragmatic variation'.