Pragmatics and spatial language: The acquisition of front and back.

Myrto Grigoroglou · Megan Johanson · Anna Papafragou A

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asymmetry when describing a more variable battery of spatial stimuli. Our results support the pragmatic inference hypothesis. We conclude that the emergence of spatial terms does not solely index semantic development but may be linked to pragmatic factors that also shape adults' production of spatial language cross-linguistically. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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