Children’s formal division of labor in requests

This study aims to shed a light on children’s pragmatic development by examining Mandarin-speaking requests in interactions with their parents. It is found that children between 24 and 36 months old appear use various request forms, primarily simple imperatives WANT statements. A closer examination reveals prefer activity-based while both primary forms are unstructured daily conversations. The findings suggest preference for may be driven awareness of parents’ cooperativeness interactional situations. thus speculated statements two primal but they pivot one form when the situation right.