Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Danielle Matthews
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 10] 2014. vi, 394 pp.
Danielle Matthews
List of John Benjamins publications for which Danielle Matthews plays a role.
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Subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2020 Learning how to communicate in infancy Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn, Rowland, Caroline F., Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey (eds.), pp. 11–38 | Chapter
Just like other baby apes, human infants make it their business to stay in safe contact with their caregivers. The difference is that humans do this not just by holding on for dear life, but by ensuring their caregivers are in psychological contact with them. To this end, many of the most… read more
2014 Introduction: An overview of research on pragmatic development Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2014 The communicative infant from 0-18 months: The social-cognitive foundations of pragmatic development Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition, Matthews, Danielle (ed.), pp. 13–36 | Article
This chapter reviews pragmatic development in the first two years of life. We first concentrate on the period from birth to nine months, during which time communication is essentially dyadic in nature: it is not ‘about’ some third entity but rather involves the infant and caregiver responding to… read more
2014 Referential pacts in child language development Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark, Arnon, Inbal, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia (eds.), pp. 175–190 | Article
Referential pacts are temporary conventions created by interlocutors for the duration of a conversation. They occur when a speaker somewhat arbitrarily chooses between multiple possible referring expressions (e.g., saying “the spotty dog” rather than “the muddy dog” for a dog that is both spotty… read more
2011 Two- and three-year-olds' linguistic generalizations are prudent adaptations to the language they hear Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal and Eve V. Clark (eds.), pp. 153–166 | Article
Studies of children's “statistical learning” mechanisms have established that even infants are very competent at extracting grammar-like structure from sequences of language-like sounds. We review some recent work exploring how these mechanisms might be used to extract functional grammatical… read more