Publications
Bernicot, Josie and Suzanne Legros. 1987. Direct and indirect directives: What do young children understand? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 43 : 346–358.
Bock, J. Kathryn and Mary E. Hornsby. 1981. The development of directives: How children ask and tell. Journal of Child Language 8 (1) : 151–163.
Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. 1981. How to make and understand a request. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 195–210.
Newcombe, Nora and Martha Zaslow. 1981. Do 2 1/2-year-olds hint? A study of directive forms in the speech of 2 1/2-year-old children. Discourse Processes 4 (3) : 239–252.
Shatz, Marilyn, D.K. Bernstein and M.A. Shulman. 1980. The responses of language disordered children to indirect directives in varying contexts. Applied Psycholinguistics 1 (3) : 295–306.
Wilkinson, Louise Cherry. 1980. Preschool children's production of gestural directives. Language Sciences 2 (1) : 127–143.
Hollos, Marida and William O. Beeman. 1978. The development of directives among Norwegian and Hungarian children: An example of communicative style in culture. Language in Society 7 (3) : 345–355.
James, Sharon L. 1978. Effect of listener age and situation on the politeness of children's directives. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 7 (4) : 307–317.
Shatz, Marilyn. 1978. Children's comprehension of their mother's question-directives. Journal of Child Language 5 (1) : 39–46.
Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. 1977. Wait for me, roller skate. In Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, eds. Child discourse. Academic Press. pp. 165–188.