Over-informative children: Production/comprehension asymmetry or tolerance to pragmatic violations?

Lingua

Volumn 120, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1956-1972

  Davies, Catherine ^a   Katsos, Napoleon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Informativeness; Pragmatics; Production comprehension asymmetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952430450     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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