Language in Interaction
Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark
Editors
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
Published online on 18 July 2014
Published online on 18 July 2014
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. vii–viii
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List of contributors | pp. ix–xii
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introduction Language acquisition in interactionChigusa Kurumada and Inbal Arnon | pp. 1–10
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Part 1. The social and interactional nature of language input (five papers)
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Conversational input to bilingual childrenSusan M. Ervin-Tripp | pp. 13–28
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Social environments shape children’s language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabularyAdriana Weisleder and Anne Fernald | pp. 29–50
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The interactional context of language learning in TzeltalPenelope Brown | pp. 51–82
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Conversation and language acquisition: Unique properties and effectsEdy Veneziano | pp. 83–100
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Taking the floor on time: Delay and deferral in children’s turn takingMarisa Casillas | pp. 101–114
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Part 2. The role of paralinguistic information in language learning (three papers)
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Temporal synchrony in early multi-modal communicationBarbara F. Kelly | pp. 117–138
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Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf childrenAliyah Morgenstern | pp. 139–156
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How gesture helps children learn languageSusan Goldin-Meadow | pp. 157–172
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Part 3. Pragmatic forces in language learning (six papers)
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Referential pacts in child language developmentGemma Stephens and Danielle Matthews | pp. 175–190
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“We call it as puppy”: Pragmatic factors in bilingual language choiceMedha Tare and Susan A. Gelman | pp. 191–206
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Learning words through probabilistic inferences about speakers’ communicative intentionsMichael C. Frank | pp. 207–230
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Word order as a structural cue and word reordering as an interactional process in early language acquisitionAylin C. Küntay and Duygu Özge | pp. 231–250
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The discourse basis of the Korean copula construction in acquisitionPatricia M. Clancy | pp. 251–280
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Emergent clause-combining in adult-child interactional contextsRuth A. Berman and Lyle Lustigman | pp. 281–300
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Part 4. Interactional effects on language structure and use (three papers)
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Analytic and holistic processing in the development of constructionsJoan L. Bybee | pp. 303–314
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From speech with others to speech for self: A case study of “externalized drama”Dan I. Slobin | pp. 315–332
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How to talk with childrenHerbert H. Clark | pp. 333–352
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Index | pp. 353–358
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDC: Language acquisition
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General