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ERIC Number: EJ183969
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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Children's Comprehension of Presupposed Information: Logical and Pragmatic Inferences to Speaker Belief
Ackerman, Brian P.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 26, 1, 92-114, Aug 78
Examines children's ability to make both logical and pragmatic presuppositional inferences and to discriminate between the two as a function of contextual information. Five- and eight-year-old children served as subjects. (BD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comprehension, Context Clues, Elementary School Students, Intellectual Development, Kindergarten Children, Logical Thinking, Research
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Identifiers: Presuppositional Inferences