Ervin, S. M. & R. T. Bower (1952). Translation problems in international surveys. Public Opinion Quarterly, 16, 595-604.

Ervin, S. M. (1954). Information transmission with code translation. Journal of personality and social psychology, 58, 185-192.

Ervin, S. M. & C. E. Osgood (1954). Second language learning and bilingualism. Journal of personality and social psychology, 58, 139-145.

Ervin, S. M. (1955). The verbal behavior of bilinguals: The effect of language of report on the Thematic Apperception Test content of adult French bilinguals. 12. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Microfilm Library, p. 571. Microfilm AC-1

Ervin, S. M. (1960). Cognitive effects of bilingualism. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Psychology, Bonn, Germany.

Ervin, S. M. (1961). Semantic shift in bilingualism. American Journal of Psychology, 74, 233-241.

Ervin, S. M. (1961). Learning and recall in bilinguals. American Journal of Psychology, 74, 446-451.

Ervin, S. M. (1964). An analysis of the interaction of language, topic, and listener. In J. J. Gumperz and D. Hymes (Ed.), The ethnography of communication, pp. 86-102. American Anthropologist 66:6 Part 2.

Ervin, S. M. (1964). Language and TAT content in bilinguals. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 68, 500-507.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1967). An Issei learns English. In J. Macnamara (Ed.), Problems in bilingualism (Journal of Social Issues), 23 (2) 78-90.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1967). On becoming a bilingual. Working Paper No. 8, University of California, Berkeley.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2000). Bilingual minds. Bilingualism: Language & Cognition. 1: 10-12.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (in press). La emoción en el bilinguismo. In K. Hakuta (Ed.), [Proceedings of the Bilingualism Conference]. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ateneo Puertorriqueno.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & Reyes, I. (2005) Child code-switching and adult content contrasts. International Journal of Bilingualism 9, 69-84.

Ervin, S. M. (1960). Experimental procedures of children. Child Development, 31, 703-719.

Ervin, S. M. (1960). Training and a logical operation by children. Child Development, 3l, 555-563.

Ervin, S. M. (1960). Transfer effects of learning a verbal generalization. Child Development, 31, 537-554.

Ervin, S. M. & G. Foster (1960). The development of meaning in children's descriptive terms. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 60, 271-275.

Ervin, S. M. (1961). Changes with age in the verbal determinants of word association. American Journal of Psychology, 74, 361-372.

Ervin S. M. & W. Miller (1963). Language Development. National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, 108-143.

Ervin, S. M., J. Sawyer, S. Silver, J. D'Andrea, & H. Aoki (1963). The utility of translation and written symbols during the first thirty hours of language study. International Review of Applied Linguistics (IRAL), 1, 157-192.

Ervin, S. M. (1964). Imitation and structural change in children's language. In E. H. Lenneberg (Ed.), New directions in the study of language. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 163-189.

Ervin, S. M. & W. Miller (1964). The development of grammar in child language. In U. Bellugi & R. Brown (Eds.), The acquisition of language. pp. 9-34.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1966). Language development. In L. Hoffman (Ed.), Review of child development research. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, vol. 2, pp. 55-105.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1967). An Issei learns English. In J. Macnamara (Ed.), Problems in bilingualism (Journal of Social Issues), 23 (2) 78-90.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1967). Introduction, phonology, communicative routines, contrastive analysis, informal education, introduction to styles, natural conversation. In D. I. Slobin (Ed.), Field manual for cross-cultural study of the acquisition of communicative competence. Berkeley: ASUC Bookstore.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1968). Language development. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 9, 9-14, The Macmillan Company & The Free Press, New York.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1968). The acquisition of communicative competence by children in different cultures. Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 3, 406-408.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1970). Discourse agreement: How children answer questions. In R. Hayes (Ed.), Cognition and language learning. New York: Wiley and Sons, pp. 79-107.

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. (1970). Structure and process in language acquisition. In E. Alatis (Ed.), Monograph Series on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, vol. 23, pp. 313-353.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1971). An overview of theories of grammatical development. In D. I. Slobin (Ed.), The ontogenesis of grammar: some facts and theories. New York: Academic Press, pp. 189-212.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1971). Origins of language. In Lazerson, A. (Eds.), Developmental Psychology Today. Del Mar: CRM Books, pp. 163-179.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1971). Social backgrounds and verbal skills. In Huxley, R. and Ingram, E. (Eds.), Language acquisition: models and methods. London/New York: Academic Press, pp. 29-39.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1971). Social dialects in developmental sociolinguistics. In Shuy, R. (Ed.), Sociolinguistics: a cross-disciplinary perspective. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, pp. 35-64.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1972). Children's sociolinguistic competence and dialect diversity. In Gordon, I. U. (Ed.), Early childhood education: The seventy-first yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 123-160.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1972). Some strategies for the first two years. In T. Moore (Ed.), Cognitive development and the acquisition of language. ([pp ??) New York: Academic Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1973). Language acquisition and communicative choice. Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Edited by Anwar S. Dil)

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1973). Reading as second language learning. Claremont: Claremont College. Claremont Reading Conference

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1974). The comprehension and production of requests by children. Stanford Papers and Reports on Child Language, 8, 188-195.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1974). Is second language learning like the first? TESOL Quarterly, 8, 111-125.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1974). Some bases for early features of production. In J. Mehler (Ed.), Problèmes actuelles en psycholinguistique. Paris: . Colloques internationaux du CNRS.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1975). Language development from babbling to sarcasm. APA Master Lecture Series. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1977). Discussion: from the viewpoint of a psychologist. In Snow, C. E. and Ferguson, C. A. (Eds.), Talking to children: language input and acquisition. London: Cambridge University Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1977). Early discourse: some questions about questions. In Lewis, M. M. & Rosenblum, L. A. (Ed.s), Interaction, conversation, and the development of language. New York: Wiley.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1977). From conversation to syntax. Stanford Papers and reports on child language development, 13, 1-21.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1977). Wait for me, roller-skate. In Mitchell-Kernan, C. & Ervin-Tripp, S. (Eds.), Child Discourse. New York: Academic Press.

Mitchell-Kernan, C. & Ervin-Tripp, S. (Eds.)(1977). Child Discourse. New York: Academic Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1978). Some features of early child-adult dialogues. Language in Society, 7, 357-373.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1978). The onset of grammar. In Honsa, V. and Hardman-de-Bautista, M. J. (Eds.), Ruth Hirsch Weir Memorial Volume. The Hague: Mouton.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1979). Children's verbal turn-taking. In Ochs, E. and Schieffelin, B. (Eds.), Developmental pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, pp. 391-414.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1979). Whatever happened to communicative competence? In B. Kachru (Ed.), The 1978 Linguistic Forum Lectures. Champaign: University of Illinois Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1981). From conversation to syntax. Versus: Quaderni di studi semiotici, 16/27, 81-100.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1981). Social process in first and second language learning. In Winitz, H. (Ed.), Native language and foreign language acquisition (Annals). New York: New York Academy of Science.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1982). Ask and it shall be given you: Children's requests. In Byrnes, H. (Ed.), Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1982). Structures of control. In Wilkinson, L. C. (Ed.), Communicating in the classroom. N.Y.: Academic Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1982). Les effets de l'interaction sociale sur l'acquisition de langage. Actes du 2me colloque du Groupe de Recherche en Didactique de Langue. Quebec: Centre International de Recherche pour le Bilinguisme, Serie B.

Gordon, D. P. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1984). The structure of children's requests. In Schiefelbusch, R. L. & Pickar, J. (Eds.), The acquisition of communicative competence. Baltimore: University Park Press, pp. 295-322.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & D. P. Gordon (1985). The development of requests. In Schiefelbusch, R. L. (Ed.), Communicative competence: Acquisition and intervention. Beverly Hills CA: College Hills Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1985). The art of conversation: a commentary. Child development monographs, 49.2, 73-81.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1986). Activity structure as scaffolding for children's second language learning. In Corsaro, W., Cook-Gumperz, J., and Streeck, J. (Ed.), Children's language and children's worlds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 1, pp. 327-358.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1986). Activity types and the structure of talk in second language learning. In Fishman, J. (Ed.), The Fergusonian impact: Papers in honor of the 65th birthday of C.A. Ferguson. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, vol. 1.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1987). Some issues in relating first and second language learning. In H. Blanc, M. Le Douaron & D. Veronique (Eds.), S'approprier une langue étrangère.. Paris: Didier Erudition, pp. 276-282.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., A. Strage, M. Lampert, & N. Bell (1987). Understanding requests. Linguistics, 25, 107-143.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1988). Request retries. Lenguas modernas, 15, 25-34, University of Chile, Santiago.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1988). Sisters and brothers. In P. G. Zukow (Ed.), Sibling interactions across cultures: Theoretical and methodological issues. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 182-193.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1989). Two papers on children's speech acts and syntactic development. Berkeley Cognitive Science Report , Berkeley, CA.: Inst. of Cognitive Studies, University of California.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., J. Guo, & M. Lampert (1990). Politeness and persuasion in children's control acts. Journal of pragmatics, 14, 195-219.

Kyratzis, A., J. Guo, and S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1990). Pragmatic conventions influencing children's use of causal expressions in natural discourse. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meetingof the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 205-215.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1991). Play in language development. In Scales, B., Almy, A., Almy, M., Nicolopoulou, A., & Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (Eds), Play and the social context of development in early care and education. New York: Columbia Teachers College, pp. 84-98.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1993). La demande dans la famille: apprendre à être poli et à persuader. Bulletin de psychologie, 46, 51-59.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1994). Constructing syntax from discourse. In Clark, E (Ed.), Proceedings of the Stanford child language research forum. (pp. 333-341) Stanford, CA: CSLI.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1995). Impact du cadre interactionnel sur les acquisitions en syntaxe [Impact of the interactional setting on the acquisition of syntax]. Acquisition et Interaction en Langue Etrangère (AILE) , 4, 53-80.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1995). Child psychology and child pragmatics. In J. Verschueren, J.-O. Ostman, & J. Blommaert (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual (pp. 227-234). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Küntay, A. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1998). Narrative structure and conversational circumstances. Journal of narrative and life history. 7: 113-120.

Kyratzis, A. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1999). The development of discourse markers in peer interaction. Journal of pragmatics. 31: 1321-1338.

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. (2000). Studying conversation: How to get natural peer interaction. In Lise Menn & Nan Bernstein Ratner, (eds.) Methods for Studying Language Production. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). The place of gender in developmental pragmatics: Cultural factors. Research on Language in Social Interaction, 34:131-147.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). Developmental pragmatics: state of art and perspectives. In J. Bernicot, A. Trognon, M. Guidetti, & M. Musiol (Eds.) Pragmatique et Psychologie (pp. 179-193). Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., Laval, V. et Bernicot, J. (2002) Organisation du discours, actes de langage et langage non literal chez l'enfant : questions methodologiques. In Bernicot, J., Trognon, A, Guidetti, M. & Musiol, M. (Eds.) Pragmatique et psychologie (pp. 195-214). Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy.

Ervin-Tripp, S.,Lampert, M., Escalera, E.. & Reyes, I. (2004). It was hecka funny: Some features of children's' conversational development. Texas Linguistic Forum. 48:1-16, Proceedings of the Twelfth annual Symposium About Language and Society.

Ervin-Tripp, S.M., Lampert M., Reyes, I. & Escalera, E. (2005). Sharing laughter: Age changes in conversational humor with best friends. In Barbara Bokus & Jolanta Zamecka (Eds.) Studies in the psychology of child language, in honor of Grace Wales Shugar (pp. 275-288). Warsaw: Matrix

Ervin, S. M. (1962). The connotations of gender. Word, 18, 249-261.

Ervin, S. M. (1963). Correlates of associative frequency. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1, 422-431.

Ervin, S. M. (1964). Language and thought. In S. Tax (Ed.), Horizons of anthropology. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, pp. 81-91.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1966). Discussion. In E. C. Carterette (Ed.), Speech, language, and communication. Los Angeles: University of California Press, pp. 58-60, 245-246.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & D. I. Slobin (1966). Psycholinguistics. Annual Review of Psychology, 17, 435-474.

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. & D. I. Slobin (1968). Recenti orientamenti in psicolinguistica. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 9 No. 2 april-june.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1970). Substitution, context, and association. In L. Postman and G. Keppel (Ed.), Norms of word association. New York: Academic Press, pp. 383-467.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1977). Language and thought. In Tax, S. and Freeman, L. G. (Eds.), Horizons of anthropology. Chicago: Aldine Press.

Reviews & Histories

Ervin, S. M. (1958). Review of Certain language skills in children, by Mildred Templin. Contemporary Psychology, 3, 128-129.

Ervin, S. M. (1958). Review of Intelligence in United States, by H. Miner. Psychometrika, 23, 388-390.

Ervin, S. M. (1960). Review of Verbal categories in child language, by H. Kahane, R. Kahane, and Sol Saporta. Romance Philology, 14, 45-48.

Ervin, S. M. (1961). Review of Speech and the development of mental processes in the child by A. R. Luria and F. I. Yudovich. Contemporary Psychology, 6, 20.

Ervin, S. M. (1963). Review of Psycholinguistics ed. by Sol Saporta. American Anthropologist, 65, 750-752.

Ervin, S. M. (1963). Review of Variations in value orientations by F. Kluckhohn and F.Strodtbeck. American Journal of Psychology, 76, 342-343.

Ervin, S. M. (1964). Abstracts on psycholinguistics. International Journal of American Linguistics, 30, 9093, 184-193.

Ervin, S. M. (1964). Review of Language in the crib by R. H. Weir. International Journal of American Linguistics, 30, 420-424.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., (May, 1969). Communicative competence. Items, 22-26. New York: Social Science Research Council.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1974). Review of W. Lambert: Language, Psychology, and Culture. Language in Society, 3, 305309.

Ervin-Tripp,S. M. (1974). Two decades of Council activity in the rapprochement of linguistics and social science. Items, 28, no. 11-4. New York: Social Science Research Council.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1982). Review of McConnell-Ginet et al. "Women and Language in Literature and Society". Contemporary Psychology, 27.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1997). The development of sociolinguistics. In C. B. Paulston and G. R.Tucker (Eds.), The early days of sociolinguistics: Memories and reflections. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Publications in sociolinguistics 2.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2003). Review of Mediated discourse: The nexus of practice by Ron Scollon. Journal of Pragmatics. Journal of Pragmatics, 35: 799-802.

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. (2004). Review of Talking to adults: The contribution of multiparty discourse to language acquisition edited by Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Catherine E. Snow . Journal of Child Language. 32, 692-697

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. (2004). Review of Language acquisition and conceptual development by Melissa Bowerman and Stephen C. Levinson. Anthropological Linguistics. 14, 110-111

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. (2005). Review of Telephone calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures edited by Kwang kwong Luke and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou. Journal of Pragmatics. 37, 763-767.

Ervin, S. M. & H. Landar (1963). Navaho word associations. American Journal of Psychology, 76, 49-57.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1967). Navaho connotative judgments: The metaphor of person description. In D. Hymes and W. E. Bittle (Eds.), Studies in southwestern ethnolinguistics. The Hague: Mouton, pp. 91-116.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., H. J. Landar, and A. E. Horowitz (1960). Navaho color categories. Language, 36, 368-382.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1969). Sociolinguistics. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology. New York: Academic Press, vol. 4, pp. 91-165.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1972). Alternation and co-occurrence. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.), Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pp. 218-250.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1975). Sociolinguistics in the United States. In D. N. Shelev & L. P. Krysin (Eds.), Collection of work in sociolinguistics. Moscow: Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., K. Nakamura, and J. Guo (1995). Shifting face from Asia to Europe. In Shibatani, M. & Thompson, S. (Eds.), Essays in semantics and pragmatics. (pp. 43-71). Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). Variety, style-switching, and ideology. In P. Eckert & J. Rickford (eds.) Style and variation.(pp. 44-56). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ervin, S. M. (1962). The connotations of gender. Word, 18, 249-261.

Colson, E., E. Scott, & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1971). Report of the subcommittee on the status of academic women on the Berkeley campus. University of California.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1975). What do women sociolinguists want?: Prospects for a research field. In B. L. Dubois & I. Crouch (Eds.), The sociology of the languages of American women. San Antonio: New Mexico State University. Proceedings, Conference on the Sociology of Language of American Women (PISE Papers).

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1978). What do women sociolinguists want? Prospects for a research field. International Journal of Sociology of Language, 17, 17-28.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1981). How to make and understand a request. In Parret, H., Sbisa, M., and Verschueren, J. (Eds.), Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1987). About, by, and to women. In Brouwer, D. & de Haan, D. (Eds.), Women's language, socialization, and self-image. Dordrecht and Providence: Foris.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & M. D. Lampert (1992 ). Gender differences in the construction of humorous talk. In Hall, K., Buchholtz, E. & Moonwoman, B. (Eds.), Locating power: Proceedings of the Second Berkeley Women and Language Conference. Berkeley, CA.: Berkeley Women and Language Group, Linguistics Department, University of California, pp. 108-117.

Lampert, M. & S. Ervin-Tripp. (1998) Exploring paradigms: The study of gender and sense of humor near the end of the twentieth century. The sense of humor : explorations of a personality characteristic. In Willibald Ruch (ed.). (pp. 231-270) Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter. Series title: Humor research ; 3.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). The place of gender in developmental pragmatics: Cultural factors. Research on Language in Social Interaction, 34:131-147.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (in press) Techtalk as group talk.In her own voice: collected writings of Robin Tolmach Lakoff (ed. Laurel A. Sutton (Ed.), Oxford University Press.

Lampert, M.D. & Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2006). Risky laughter: Teasing and self-directed joking among male and female friends. Journal of Pragmatics. 38, 51-72.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1968). Sociolinguistics. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology. New York: Academic Press, vol. 4, pp. 91-165.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1972). Alternation and co-occurrence. In J. J. Gumperz & D. Hymes (Eds.), Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, pp. 218-250.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1974). The comprehension and production of requests by children. Stanford Papers and Reports on Child Language, 8, 188-195.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1976). Is Sybil there: Some American English directives. Language in Society, 5, 25-66.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1976). Speech acts and social learning. In K. H. Basso & H. Selby (Eds.), Meaning in anthropology. University of New Mexico Press, pp. 123-153.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1980). Speech acts, social meaning, and social learning. In Giles, H., Robinson, W. P. & Smith, P. M. (Eds.), Language: Social psychological perspectives. New York: Pergamon Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1981). How to make and understand a request. In Parret, H., Sbisa, M., and Verschueren, J. (Eds.), Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1982). Ask and it shall be given you: Children's requests. In Byrnes, H. (Ed.), Georgetown Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown Uiversity.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1982). Structures of control. In Wilkinson, L. C. (Ed.), Communicating in the classroom. N.Y.: Academic Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., O'Connor, M. C., & Rosenberg, J. (1984). Language and power in the family. In Schulz, M. and Kramerae, C. (Ed.), Language and power. Belmont, Ca.: Sage Press, pp. 116-135.

Gordon, D. P. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1984). The structure of children's requests. In Schiefelbusch, R. L. & Pickar, J. (Eds.), The acquisition of communicative competence. Baltimore: University Park Press, pp. 295-322.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1985). The art of conversation: a commentary. Child development monographs, 49.2, 73-81.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & A. Strage (1985). Parent-child discourse. In Van Dijk, T. (Ed.), Handbook of discourse analysis. New York: Academic Press, vol. 3, pp. 67-78.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & D. P. Gordon (1985). The development of requests. In Schiefelbusch, R. L. (Ed.), Communicative competence: Acquisition and intervention. Beverly Hills CA: College Hills Press.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1987). Cross-cultural and developmental sources of pragmatic generalizations. In Verschueren, J. & Bertuccelli-Papi, M. (Eds.), The pragmatic perspective. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1987). Talk that talk. Contemporary Psychology, 32, 935-936.Ervin-Tripp, S. M., A. Strage, M. Lampert, & N. Bell (1987). Understanding requests. Linguistics, 25, 107-143.Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1988). Request retries. Lenguas modernas, 15, 25-34, University of Chile, Santiago.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M., J. Guo, & M. Lampert (1990). Politeness and persuasion in children's control acts. Journal of pragmatics, 14, 195-219.

Kyratzis, A., J. Guo, and S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1990). Pragmatic conventions influencing children's use of causal expressions in natural discourse. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meetingof the Berkeley Linguistics Society, pp. 205-215.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1993). Conversational discourse . In Berko Gleason , J. & Ratner, N. B. (Eds.), Psycholinguistics today. Boston: C. E. Merrill, pp. 237-270.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1993). La demande dans la famille: apprendre à être poli et à persuader. Bulletin de psychologie, 46, 51-59.Lampert, M. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1993). Structured coding for the study of language and social interaction. In Edwards, J. & Lampert , M. (Eds.), Talking Data: Transcription and coding methods for language research. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 169-206.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1995). Child psychology and child pragmatics. In J. Verschueren, J.-O. Ostman, & J. Blommaert (Eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual (pp. 227-234). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (1996) Context in language. In Dan I. Slobin, Julie Gerhardt, Amy 1G Kyratzis, & Jiansheng Guo, (Eds.) Social interactions, social context, and language. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. & Kuntay, A. (1997) The occasioning and structure of conversational stories. In T. Givon (ed.) Conversation: cultural, cognitive and communicative perspectives, Amsterdam: J. Benjamins.

Küntay, A. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1998). Narrative structure and conversational circumstances. Journal of narrative and life history. 7: 113-120.

Kyratzis, A. & S. M. Ervin-Tripp (1999). The development of discourse markers in peer interaction. Journal of pragmatics. 31: 1321-1338.

Ervin-Tripp, S.M. (2000). Studying conversation: How to get natural peer interaction. In Lise Menn & Nan Bernstein Ratner, (eds.) Methods for Studyin g Language Production. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). The place of gender in developmental pragmatics: Cultural factors. Research on Language in Social Interaction, 34:131-1 47.

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Ervin-Tripp, S. M. (2001). Variety, style-switching, and ideology. In P. Eckert & J. Rickford (eds.) Style and variation (pp. 44-56). New York: Cambridge University Press.

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