TY - BOOK
T1 - Language in interaction
T2 - studies in honor of Eve V. Clark
A2 - Arnon, Inbal
A2 - Casillas, Marisa
A2 - Estigarribia, Bruno
A2 - Kurumada, Chigusa
N1 - notValidatingIssn:1569-0644 ;
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - 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? Evidence shows that in conversation both adults and children try to establish, as they go along, the mutual belief that they have understood each other well enough for current purposes. It is this process, called grounding, that allows adults to infer the child's current abilities and to adapt their spe.
AB - 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? Evidence shows that in conversation both adults and children try to establish, as they go along, the mutual belief that they have understood each other well enough for current purposes. It is this process, called grounding, that allows adults to infer the child's current abilities and to adapt their spe.
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T3 - Trends in language acquisition research
BT - Language in interaction
PB - John Benjamins Pub. Co
CY - Amsterdam
ER -