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ERIC Number: EJ246142
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Jun
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When Is a Question Not Answered? The Understanding of Young Children of Utterances Violating or Conforming to the Rules of Conversational Sequencing.
Ackerman, Brian P.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v31 n3 p487-507 Jun 1981
Results suggest that children can use the rules of conversational sequencing to evaluate the need for an inference to the speaker's intent when speakers deliberately violate a rule. This ability is acquired by six or seven years of age, but children do not correctly infer the speaker's intent until they are eight or nine years old. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Language Research, Language Skills
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Conversation; Sequencing Rules