Cover not available

In:Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Danielle Matthews
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 10] 2014
► pp. 1–12

Get fulltext from our e-platform
JBE logo with link
PDF logo with download linkDownload Book PDF
authorization required

Introduction

An overview of research on pragmatic development

ORCiD logo with link
Published online: 26 June 2014
DOI logo with link
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.10.01mat
References (44)
Allen, S.E.M. (2000). A discourse-pragmatic explanation for argument representation in child Inuktitut. Linguistics , 38(3), 483–521. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Allen, S.E.M., Skarabela, B., & Hughes, M. (2008). Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax. In H. Behrens (Ed.), Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: Finding Structure in Data (pp. 99–137). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Apperly, I. (2011). Mindreaders: The Cognitive Basis of ‘Theory of Mind’ . Hove: Psychology Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ariel, M. (2010). Defining Pragmatics . Cambridge: CUP. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Bergelson, E., & Swingley, D. (2012). At 6–9 months, human infants know the meanings of many common nouns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 109(9), 3253–3258. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Berger, F., & Höhle, B. (2012). Restrictions on addition: children’s interpretation of the focus particles auch ‘also’ and nur ‘only’ in German. Journal of Child Language , 39(02), 383–410. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Csibra, G. (2010). Recognizing communicative intentions in infancy. Mind and Language , 25(2), 141–168. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Csibra, G., & Gergely, G. (2011). Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 366(1567), 1149–1157. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Daum, M.M., Ulber, J., & Gredebäck, G. (in press). The development of pointing comprehension in infancy: Effects of communicative verbal cues on covert shifts of attention. Developmental Psychology .
de Marchena, A., Eigsti, I.-M., Worek, A., Ono, K.E., & Snedeker, J. (2011). Mutual exclusivity in autism spectrum disorders: Testing the pragmatic hypothesis. Cognition , 119(1), 96–113. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Diesendruck, G., & Markson, L. (2011). Children’s assumption of the conventionality of culture. Child Development Perspectives , 5(3), 189–195. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Evans, N., & Levinson, S.C. (2009). The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 32(05), 429–448. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Frank, M.C., & Goodman, N.D. (2012). Predicting pragmatic reasoning in language games. Science , 336, 998. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gegerly, G., & Csibra, G. (2006). Sylvia’s recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of cultural knowledge. In N.J. Enfield & S.C. Levinson (Eds.), Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction . Oxford: Wenner-Gren Foundation.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Gomez, J.C. (2007). Pointing behaviors in apes and human infants: A balanced interpretation. Child Development , 78(3), 729–734. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Grice, H.P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In P. Cole & J. Morgan (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics 3, Speech Acts (pp. 41–58). New York, NY: Academic Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Henrich, J., Heine, S.J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). Most people are not WEIRD. Nature , 466(7302), 29–29.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kalish, C.W., & Sabbagh, M.A. (2007). Conventionality and cognitive development: Learning to think the right way. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development , 2007(115), 1–9. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Karmiloff-Smith, A. (1998). Development itself is the key to understanding developmental disorders. Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 2(10), 389–398. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Krahmer, E., & van Deemter, K. (2011). Computational generation of referring expressions: A survey. Computational Linguistics , 38(1), 173–218. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Levinson, S.C. (1983). Pragmatics . Cambridge: CUP.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2006). On the human “interaction engine”. In N.J. Enfield & S.C. Levinson (Eds.), Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction . Oxford: The Wenner-Gren Foundation.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ninio, A., & Snow, C.E. (1996). Pragmatic Development . Boulder, CO: Westview Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Norbury, C.F., & Sparks, A. (2013). Difference or disorder? Cultural issues in understanding neurodevelopmental disorders. Developmental Psychology , 49(1), 45–58. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Ochs, E., & Schieffelin, B. (1979). Developmental Pragmatics . New York, NY: Academic Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Parise, E., & Csibra, G. (2012). Electrophysiological evidence for the understanding of maternal speech by 9-month-old infants. Psychological Science , 23(7), 728–733. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Potts, C. (in press). Pragmatics. In R. Mitkov (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics (2nd Ed.). Oxford: OUP.
Rakoczy, H., Brosche, N., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children’s understanding of the context-relativity of normative rules in conventional games. British Journal of Developmental Psychology , 27(2), 445–456. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sarilar, A., Matthews, D.E., & Kuntay, A. (in press). Hearing relative clauses boosts relative clause usage (and referential clarity) in young Turkish language learners. Applied Psycholinguistics .
Saygin, A.P., & Cicekli, I. (2002). Pragmatics in human-computer conversations. Journal of Pragmatics , 34(3), 227–258. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Serratrice, L. (2004). Crosslinguistic influence at the syntax-pragmatics interface: Subjects and objects in English-Italian bilingual and monolingual acquisition. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , 7(3), 183–205. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Serratrice, L., Sorace, A., Filiaci, F., & Baldo, M. (2011). Pronominal objects in English-­Italian and Spanish-Italian bilingual children. Applied Psycholinguistics , 33, 725–751. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Siegal, M., & Peterson, C.C. (1998). Preschoolers’ understanding of lies and innocent and negligent mistakes. Developmental psychology , 34(2), 332–341. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Sperber, D., & Wilson, D. (1995). Relevance: Communication and Cognition (2nd Ed.). Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Talwar, V., & Lee, K. (2008). Social and cognitive correlates of children’s lying behavior. Child Development , 79(4), 866–881. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. (2008). Origins of Human Communication . Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences , 28, 675–690. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Turing, A.M. (1950). I. – Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind , LIX(236), 433–460. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
van Deemter, K., Gatt, A., van Gompel, R.P.G., & Krahmer, E. (2012). Toward a computational psycholinguistics of reference production. Topics in Cognitive Science , 4(2), 166–183. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wells, B. (2010). Tonal repetition and tonal contrast in English carer-child interaction. In D. Barth-Weingarten, E. Reber & M. Selting (Eds.), Prosody in Interaction (pp. 243–262). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wells, B., & Local, J. (2009). Prosody as an interactional resource: A clinical linguistic perspective. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology , 11(4), 321–325. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wittgenstein, L. (1958). Philosophical investigations . (G.E.M. Anscombe, Trans.). Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Normativity and context in young children’s pretend play. Cognitive Development , 24(2), 146–155. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Cited by (1)

Cited by one other publication

Tuohimaa, Krista, Soile Loukusa, Heikki Löppönen, Antti A. Aarnisalo, Aarno Dietz, Antti Hyvärinen, Jaakko Laitakari, Satu Rimmanen, Jaakko Salonen, Ville Sivonen, Tanja Tennilä, Teija Tsupari, Sari Vikman, Nonna Virokannas, Johanna Hautala, Anna-Kaisa Tolonen, Taina Välimaa & Sari Kunnari
2025. Factors Associated With Social-Pragmatic Understanding in Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Typically Hearing 6-Year-Old Children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 68:2 ► pp. 808 ff. DOI logo

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 6 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.

Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 prag Twitter_Logo_Blue