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Language in interaction : studies in honor of Eve V. Clark /

It is generally assumed that adults learn how to talk with children in a special style called child-directed speech. But this cannot be the whole story. Each child's ability to speak and understand is a moving target, changing yearly, weekly, even daily. How could adults adapt to these changes?...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Arnon, Inbal (Editor ), Casillas, Marisa (Editor ), Kurumada, Chigusa (Editor ), Estigarribia, Bruno (Editor ), Clark, Eve V. (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
Colección:Trends in language acquisition research ; v. 12.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Language in Interaction; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; List of contributors ; Introduction: Language acquisition in interaction ; References ; Part 1. The social and interactional nature of language input (five papers); Conversational input to bilingual children ; Conditions of child first language acquisition ; First language success ; Bilingual development ; Factors in successful child bilingualism ; Age and stage in BFLA ; Contexts for learning ; Instructional exchanges ; Bilingualism in the home ; Contrasts of setting ; Pragmatic skills.
  • Learning conversational discourse Speech acts ; Meaningful code-switching ; Speech event structure ; Summary ; References ; Social environments shape children's language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabulary ; Social environments shape children's language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabulary ; 1. Sources of variability in children's language learning ; 2. What is processing efficiency? And why does it matter? ; What is fluency in understanding? ; Stability and predictive validity of online processing measures.
  • 3. SES-differences in language processing skill 4. Where do these differences come from? ; 5. Conclusions ; References ; The interactional context of language learning in Tzeltal ; Introduction ; Word learning in a pragmatic context ; Tzeltal caregiver-child interactions ; Prelinguistic babies (age 0; 9
  • 1; 5): The many functions of 'eh' and 'hm' ; Beginning to speak (age 1; 6
  • 2; 6) ; Discussion ; References ; Conversation and language acquisition ; The unique properties of conversational exchanges ; Motivation to communicate ; Information about partners.
  • Information about language meaning and structure Information about language use ; The emergence of new joint events ; The effects of conversational exchanges ; Immediate effects: Continuing the topic of the conversation ; Immediate effects: Increased matching ; Long-term effects of conversational exchanges ; Child-directed speech and conversational exchanges ; Concluding remarks ; References ; Taking the floor on time ; Introduction ; Turn timing ; Marking delays in children's conversation ; Delay marking at home ; General discussion ; References.
  • Part 2. The role of paralinguistic information in language learning (three papers)Temporal synchrony in early multi-modal communication ; A personal note ; Introduction ; Stages of gesture-speech development ; Data ; Participants ; Data analysis ; Synchronization ; The findings ; Brailey ; Caitlin ; Chera ; Fiona ; Lette ; Implications of gesture-word synchrony ; Concluding remarks ; References ; Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf children ; A personal note ; Introduction ; Gaze in hearing and deaf children ; Pointing in hearing and deaf children.