2015
DOI: 10.1080/09669760.2014.992867
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Creating pretence and sharing friendship: modal expressions in children's play

Abstract: Friendships and play provide children with opportunities for mutual engagement, which both require and facilitate children's language use. Modality is a semantic system in the language associated with children's learning. One way in which modality is realised is through linguistic expressions which allow speakers to moderate the degree of certainty about the truth of propositions (expressions of possibility) and the degree of necessity with respect to proposals (expressions of obligation). No research has expl… Show more

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“…The acquisition of modals is important because they make our language nuanced. Their acquisition promotes children's socio-pragmatic skills, including the ability to negotiate with others and form peer networks (Halliday, 1994;Hoyte, Torr & Degotardi, 2015). In this paper, we focus on whether modals' form-function mappings in the input affect acquisition.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The acquisition of modals is important because they make our language nuanced. Their acquisition promotes children's socio-pragmatic skills, including the ability to negotiate with others and form peer networks (Halliday, 1994;Hoyte, Torr & Degotardi, 2015). In this paper, we focus on whether modals' form-function mappings in the input affect acquisition.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%