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ERIC Number: EJ258332
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Dec
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Performative Bias in Children's Interpretations of Ambiguous Referential Communications.
Ackerman, Brian P.
Child Development, v52 n4 p1224-30 Dec 1981
Hypothesizes that young children respond incorrectly in interpreting ambiguous communications in referential tasks because they respond to the elocutionary performative force rather than the locutionary content of the communications. Results of two experiments tended to confirm the hypothesis. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Ambiguity, Communication Research, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Grade 2, Kindergarten Children, Oral Language, Primary Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Performative Language; Referents (Linguistics)