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Children can't always read between the lines. Sometimes it's better to be explicit

  • Written by Lyn Tieu, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney University
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When we communicate, there is often just as much meaning in what we don’t say as in what we say overtly.

For example, if I say “Sally coloured the circle or the triangle”, you will probably take this to mean she coloured only one of them, not both, even though I didn’t say so explicitly.

In linguistics, we call...

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