Marisa Casillas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marisa Casillas is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1569-0644
Title
Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark
Edited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia
Understanding how communicative goals impact and drive the learning process has been a long-standing issue in the field of language acquisition. Recent years have seen renewed interest in the social and pragmatic aspects of language learning: the way interaction shapes what and how children learn.… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 12] 2014. xi, 358 pp.
Articles
2014 Taking the floor on time: Delay and deferral in children’s turn taking Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 101–114 | Article
A key part of learning to speak with others is figuring out when to start talking and how to hold the floor in conversation. For young children, the challenge of planning a linguistic response can slow down their response latencies, making misunderstanding, repair, and loss of the floor more likely. read more
2014 Turn-taking Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 53–70 | Article
Conversation is a structured, joint action for which children need to learn a specialized set skills and conventions. Because conversation is a primary source of linguistic input, we can better grasp how children become active agents in their own linguistic development by studying their acquisition… read more