How to be Brief: Children’s and Adults’ Application of Grice’s Brevity Maxim in Production
The brevity maxim of Gricean pragmatics states that unnecessary prolixity should be avoided. We report a case in which 5-year-old children’s performance conforms better to Grice’s maxim than adults’ behavior. Our data come from a semi-spontaneous German relative clause...
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MDPI AG
2019-03-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/1/18 |