Children's and Adults' Sensitivity to Gricean Maxims and to the Maximize Presupposition Principle.

Front Psychol · 2021 · PMC7966462 · PMID 33746845

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approached significancep = 0.057so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The interaction between Type and age Group was significant in the comparison between the younger and the older children in the case of False controls ( p = 0.002), while it only approached significance in the case of True controls ( p = 0.057), again suggesting a developmental trend in children’s ability to conform to the task and to detect the violations of conversational maxims, which improved with age.

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