Lithuanian and Russian child-directed speech: Why do we ask young children so many questions?
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Why Do You Ask So Many Questions ?
[N]o amount of telling somebody in mere words that one is or is not angry is the same as what one might tell them by gesture or tone of voice .... Anyhow, it is all nonsense. I mean, the notion that language is made of words is all nonsense -and when I said that gestures could not be translated into "mere words/' I was talking nonsense, because there is no such thlng as "mere words" ... Gregory...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu aastaraamat Estonian Papers in Applied Linguistics
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1736-2563
DOI: 10.5128/erya8.05