Re: Labov's latest discovery in sociolinguistics

Do children need to be explicitly taught to use tu/vous appropriately?
(etc. etc. etc.)

I think your implication is "no", but in more complicated cases it's
hard to see how anyone could learn the rules without some explicit
instruction - like the status markers you get in Japanese and some
Polynesian languages.

Has anybody ever looked at exactly how children do learn the tu/vous
distinction - what situations they go through that communicate the
rule to them?

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