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Developing sensitivity to the sources of information: Early use of the Japanese quotative particles tte and to in mother–child conversation

01 Dec 2013-Journal of Pragmatics (North-Holland)-Vol. 59, pp 5-25
TL;DR: This article found that infants and toddlers imitate words they hear, and their imitation of words gradually grows into proper quotation of words and utterances, in which the original source of the utterance is formally acknowledged.
About: This article is published in Journal of Pragmatics.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 31 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quotative & Onomatopoeia.
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01 May 2016-Lingua
TL;DR: This paper investigated how young children use these criteria, by focusing on two indicators of trustworthiness: linguistic expressions of speaker certainty, and personal familiarity, to assess the trustworthiness of the speaker.

34 citations


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  • ...This can be explained by previous findings that the distinction between direct (e.g. eye-witness) vs. indirect evidence (by hearsay) seems to be acquired relatively late in development (Fitneva and Matsui, 2009; Matsui and Yamamoto, 2013)....

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01 Jul 2019
TL;DR: In an attempt to give a full account of polysemy, one that marries the pragmatics of word meaning with the demands of grammar, Robyn Carston advocates a split view of the lexicon, with one part narrowly linguistic and computational, and the other an ever-evolving store of communicational units.
Abstract: Robyn Carston discusses the relevance-based on-line construction of ad hoc concepts (or occasion-specific senses), which she takes to be the source of much semantic polysemy (where words are stored with a cluster of related senses). In an attempt to give a full account of polysemy, one that marries the pragmatics of word meaning with the demands of grammar, Carston advocates a split view of the lexicon, with one part narrowly linguistic and computational, and the other an ever-evolving store of communicational units.

33 citations

15 Jun 2014
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-linguistic differences and similarities in the acquisition of grammaticalized expressions of certainty and evidentiality are studied, and how children acquire those expressions and how acquisition of those expressions interacts with conceptual understanding of information source and trustworthiness of informants.
Abstract: Informants are not always trustworthy or knowledgeable. Therefore, it is no surprise that every language has means to indicate how the speaker acquired a piece of information, as well as means to indicate how certain the speaker is about the information he is describing. The former are often called expressions of evidentiality and the latter are called expressions of certainty. Currently, however, little is known about how and when children acquire those expressions, and how acquisition of those expressions interacts with conceptual understanding of information source and trustworthiness of informants. The aim of this chapter is to shed some light on the issues by looking into cross-linguistic differences and similarities in acquisition of grammaticalized expressions of certainty and evidentiality.

19 citations


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  • ...In our lab, we have analyzed and compared a child’s use of the Japanese hearsay particle tte over the period between 2;0 and 3;0 (Matsui & Yamamoto, 2011, 2013)....

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