This study focuses on reportative evidential that contains statements of a specific and commonly known individual with interlocutors regarding the quality evidence s/he claimed to have, his/her trustworthiness as person, linguistic markers, turn designs, emotional state, epistemic authority, factors which determine reliability information vouched through reported speech. We collected 28 convers...

Evidentials are grammatical source-of-knowledge markers. In Bulgarian they provide information about authorship--whether the speaker has personally acquired the information or not--and modality--whether perceptual or cognitive mechanisms were involved in the information's generation. In two experiments, Bulgarian kindergarteners and third-graders (ages 6 and 9, N=96) had to decide which one of ...