Children's Comprehension of Over-and Under-informative Utterances

Tiffany Morisseau, (1) , Catherine Davies (2) , Danielle Matthews (3)

1 L2C2 - Laboratoire sur le langage, le cerveau et la cognition
2 School of Modern Languages and Cultures
3 Department of Psychology [Sheffield]

The present work investigates the capacity and motivation of young children to grasp other people's communicative intention and use it to draw pragmatic inferences.

Domaines: Linguistique; Psychologie

Tiffany Morisseau,, Catherine Davies, Danielle Matthews. Children's Comprehension of Over-and Under-informative Utterances. 4th Biennial Conference of Experimental Pragmatics, Jun 2011, Barcelona, Spain. ⟨hal-00932132⟩