Gemma Stephens
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gemma Stephens is involved.
Articles
2014 The communicative infant from 0-18 months: The social-cognitive foundations of pragmatic development Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 13–36 | Article
This chapter reviews pragmatic development in the first two years of life. We first concentrate on the period from birth to nine months, during which time communication is essentially dyadic in nature: it is not ‘about’ some third entity but rather involves the infant and caregiver responding to… read more
2014 Referential pacts in child language development Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 175–190 | Article
Referential pacts are temporary conventions created by interlocutors for the duration of a conversation. They occur when a speaker somewhat arbitrarily chooses between multiple possible referring expressions (e.g., saying “the spotty dog” rather than “the muddy dog” for a dog that is both spotty… read more