Article published in:
Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. ClarkEdited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 12] 2014
► pp. 101–114
Taking the floor on time
Delay and deferral in children’s turn taking
Marisa Casillas | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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. Like adults, children can mitigate their delays by using fillers (e.g., uh and um) at the start of their turns. In this chapter I analyze the onset and development of fillers in five children’s spontaneous speech from ages 1;6–3;6. My findings suggest that children start using fillers by 2;0, and use them to effectively mitigate delay in making a response.
Published online: 17 July 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.12.09cas
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.12.09cas
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