Index

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. The communicative infant from 0-18 months 13
5. The development of speech acts 37
6. Turn-taking 53
7. Conversation Analysis and pragmatic development 71
8. Ontogenetic Constraints on Grice’s Theory of Communication 87
9. Two Pragmatic Principles in Language Use and Acquisition 105
10. Learning conventions and conventionality through conversation 121
11. The pragmatics of word learning 139
12. The production and comprehension of referring expressions 161
13. Scalar Implicature 183
14. Children’s pragmatic use of prosodic prominence 199
15. The Pragmatic Development of Humor 219
16. “The elevator’s buttocks” 239
17. Irony production and comprehension 261
18. Narrative Development across Cultural Contexts 279
19. Children’s understanding of linguistic expressions of certainty and evidentiality 295
20. Crosslinguistic and crosscultural approaches to pragmatic development 317
21. Atypical pragmatic development 343
22. Assessing pragmatic language functioning in young children 363
23. Developmental pragmatics 387
24. Index 393