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The development of verbal disputing in part-Hawaiian children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Stephen T. Boggs
Stephen T. Boggs
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University of Hawaii
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Children in Hawaii who have some Polynesian ancestry have been observed to engage frequently in a pattern of verbal disputing that is characterized by the forceful use of ‘Not!’ as an outright contradiction by one speaker of another. This paper describes the pattern and its development from early childhood into adolescence and the context of relationships in which it develops.

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Articles: Sequencing in Children's Discourse
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Language in Society , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , December 1978 , pp. 325 - 344
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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