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Endophoric Reference in Child Language

  • Small children sometimes use endophoric reference inefficiently because they assume that the referent is in the hearer's mind when it is not. Make use of the corpora CHILDES (Child Language Data Exchange System) and choose an adult child conversation in order to test this theory.
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