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Pragmatic Development

Pragmatic Development is the incremental acquisition and refinement of the ability to use language appropriately in social contexts, distinguishing it from other aspects of language development by focusing on the functional and interactive dimensions of communicative competence.

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Variability in Early Communicative Development

Larry Fenson, Philip S. Dale, J. Steven Reznick et al. · Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 1994 · 2.8K citations

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Children's Knowledge of Locality Conditions in Binding as Evidence for the Modularity of Syntax and Pragmatics

Yu-Chin Chien, Kenneth Wexler · Language Acquisition · 1990 · 599 citations

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<b>Developmental pragmatics</b> . Edited by Elinor Ochs and Bambi B. Schieffelin New York: Academic Press, 1979. Pp. xv, 437. $29.50.

Marilyn Shatz · Language · 1981 · 588 citations

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Do Language Learners Recognize Pragmatic Violations? Pragmatic versus Grammatical Awareness in Instructed L2 Learning

Kathleen Bardovi‐Harlig, Zoltán Dörnyei, Zoltán Dörnyei · TESOL Quarterly · 1998 · 573 citations

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The social bases of language acquisition

Michael Tomasello · Social Development · 1992 · 564 citations

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    Naoko Taguchi

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    19 publications · 1.5K citations

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    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    14 publications · 4.3K citations

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    Kathleen Bardovi‐Harlig

    Indiana University, United States

    13 publications · 2.4K citations

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    Michael C. Frank

    Stanford University, United States

    10 publications · 610 citations

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    Eeva Leinonen

    University of Oulu, Finland

    11 publications · 557 citations

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700

  1. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    20 h-index

    30 publications

    2K citations

  2. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    19 h-index

    44 publications

    4.8K citations

  3. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    18 h-index

    59 publications

    2.3K citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    17 h-index

    30 publications

    2K citations

  5. Universitat Jaume I

    Castellon, Spain

    17 h-index

    26 publications

    1.7K citations

  6. Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, United States

    12 h-index

    19 publications

    953 citations

  7. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    12 h-index

    19 publications

    1.8K citations

  8. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    11 h-index

    20 publications

    1.6K citations

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  1. Journal of Child Language

    59 publications · 3.5K citations

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  2. Journal of Pragmatics

    55 publications · 3.4K citations

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  3. System

    33 publications · 2.6K citations

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  5. First Language

    31 publications · 1.3K citations

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