Abstract
Two hypotheses of pronoun comprehension are presented: absolute pronouns apply to specific persons and relative pronouns apply to persons in specific relations. Sixteen families in which one or both parents use the familiar thee within the family were studied by questionnaire to determine the children's use of the familiar (T). In 9 of the 16 families the children never adopted the parents' use. It is argued that both the failure to adopt the parents' use and the pattern of use of T by the other children support the relative hypothesis.
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