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Skarabela, Barbora. 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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

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.