Directives in Sinhala: Children’s Speech and Adult Child-Directed Speech

Directives is an important area of study in child language development and language socialization since it illustrates children’s ability to affect the behavior of others around them by using language. However, we have no account of directives by children in Sinhala. A study of Sinhala directives by...

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Main Authors: L. Abesooriya, K. Perera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Open University of Sri Lanka 2019-06-01
Series:OUSL Journal
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Online Access:https://ouslj.sljol.info/articles/7453/files/submission/proof/7453-1-26716-1-10-20190815.pdf