Marisa Casillas
List of John Benjamins publications for which Marisa Casillas plays a role.
Title
Articles
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
Casillas, Marisa 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