Social interaction and the development of definite descriptions☆
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This research was part of the ‘Descriptive Language’ project, supported by the Dutch Science Foundation Z.W.O. and the German Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the XXII International Congress of Psychology, Leipzig, GDR, July 1980, and at the British Child Language Seminar, Edinburgh, Scotland, April 1981.
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We thank Eve V. Clark and Herbert H. Clark for several substantial suggestions regarding content and style of the manuscript; Theo Herrmann and Stephanie Kelter for helpful comments on an earlier version of it; Elena Levy for checking our English, and Edith Sjoerdsma for all her typing work. Thanks are also due to Jacques Arends and Jean Trienes for their assistance in running the experiments.