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
ShutterstockWhen 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...





