Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
introduction Language acquisition in interaction
Part 1. The social and interactional nature of language input (five papers)
Conversational input to bilingual children
Social environments shape children’s language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabulary
The interactional context of language learning in Tzeltal
Conversation and language acquisition: Unique properties and effects
Taking the floor on time: Delay and deferral in children’s turn taking
Part 2. The role of paralinguistic information in language learning (three papers)
Temporal synchrony in early multi-modal communication
Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf children
How gesture helps children learn language
Part 3. Pragmatic forces in language learning (six papers)
Referential pacts in child language development
“We call it as puppy”: Pragmatic factors in bilingual language choice
Learning words through probabilistic inferences about speakers’ communicative intentions
Word order as a structural cue and word reordering as an interactional process in early language acquisition
The discourse basis of the Korean copula construction in acquisition
Emergent clause-combining in adult-child interactional contexts
Part 4. Interactional effects on language structure
and use (three papers)
Analytic and holistic processing
in the development of constructions
From speech with others to speech for self: A case study of “externalized drama”
How to talk with children
Index
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