Comprehension of indirect answers: Developmental trajectory for preschool- and early elementary school-aged children with typical development.
Indirect answers are a common type of non-literal language that do not provide an explicit "yes" or "no" to a question (e.g., "I have to work late" indirectly answered "Are you going to the party?" with a negative response). In the current study, we examined the developmental trajectory of comprehen...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Child Language Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 526 - 550 |
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Cambridge University Press
May2024
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