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Development of Attenuation Patterns in the Controlling Communicative Function.

Bray, Candice; And Others – 1983

An analysis of the use of attenuation (structural or semantic softening of the speech act) and sentence structure in elicited speech acts by normally developing, learning disabled, and developmentally delayed populations is presented. In the normally developing population (1) the development of attenuation strategies is different from structural…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Cognitive Development, Communicative Competence (Languages)