Relevant replies to questions: Answers versus evasions |
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Authors: | Ginger Berninger Catherine Garvey |
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Affiliation: | (1) The Johns Hopkins University, 21218 Baltimore, Maryland;(2) Children's Hospital, Fegan 6, 300 Longwood Avenue, 02115 Boston, Massachusetts |
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Abstract: | A taxonomy was developed that accounts for all relevant partner responses to questions in the natural discourse of nursery school dyads. Evasive replies as well as answers must be included in such a scheme. Evasive replies are discoursally linked to questions, whereas answers are grammatically linked to questions. Nursery school children in this sample tended to inspect the nature of the relevance of a reply to a question and, at least on some occasions, to acknowledge replies to questions (explicitly or implicitly) and to respond differently to evasive replies than replies in general.This work was supported by a grant from the Spencer Foundation to the second author. |
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