Language in Interaction

Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark

Editors

Inbal Arnon | Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Marisa Casillas | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Chigusa Kurumada | University of Rochester

Bruno Estigarribia | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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. In this volume, we bring together researchers working on interaction in different domains to present a cohesive overview of ongoing interactional research. The studies address the diversity of the environments children learn in; the role of para-linguistic information; the pragmatic forces driving language learning; and the way communicative pressures impact language use and change. Using observational, empirical and computational findings, this volume highlights the effect of interpersonal communication on what children hear and what they learn. This anthology is inspired by and dedicated to Prof. Eve V. Clark – a pioneer in all matters related to language acquisition – and a major force in establishing interaction and communication as crucial aspects of language learning.

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 12] 2014. xi, 358 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.12

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii

List of contributors | pp. ix–xii

introduction Language acquisition in interaction

Chigusa Kurumada and Inbal Arnon | pp. 1–10

Part 1. The social and interactional nature of language input (five papers)

Conversational input to bilingual children

Susan M. Ervin-Tripp | pp. 13–28

Social environments shape children’s language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabulary

Adriana Weisleder and Anne Fernald | pp. 29–50

The interactional context of language learning in Tzeltal

Penelope Brown | pp. 51–82

Conversation and language acquisition: Unique properties and effects

Edy Veneziano | pp. 83–100

Taking the floor on time: Delay and deferral in children’s turn taking

Marisa Casillas | pp. 101–114

Part 2. The role of paralinguistic information in language learning (three papers)

Temporal synchrony in early multi-modal communication

Barbara F. Kelly | pp. 117–138

Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf children

Aliyah Morgenstern | pp. 139–156

How gesture helps children learn language

Susan Goldin-Meadow | pp. 157–172

Part 3. Pragmatic forces in language learning (six papers)

Referential pacts in child language development

Gemma Stephens and Danielle Matthews | pp. 175–190

“We call it as puppy”: Pragmatic factors in bilingual language choice

Medha Tare and Susan A. Gelman | pp. 191–206

Learning words through probabilistic inferences about speakers’ communicative intentions

Michael C. Frank | pp. 207–230

Word order as a structural cue and word reordering as an interactional process in early language acquisition

Aylin C. Küntay and Duygu Özge | pp. 231–250

The discourse basis of the Korean copula construction in acquisition

Patricia M. Clancy | pp. 251–280

Emergent clause-combining in adult-child interactional contexts

Ruth A. Berman and Lyle Lustigman | pp. 281–300

Part 4. Interactional effects on language structure  and use (three papers)

Analytic and holistic processing  in the development of constructions

Joan L. Bybee | pp. 303–314

From speech with others to speech for self: A case study of “externalized drama”

Dan I. Slobin | pp. 315–332

How to talk with children

Herbert H. Clark | pp. 333–352

Index | pp. 353–358

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Subjects

Linguistics

Multilingualism

Applied linguistics

Language acquisition

Main BIC Subject

CFDC: Language acquisition

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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