Chapter published in:
Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-KoçEdited by F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 21] 2017
► pp. 19–34
Chapter 2Becoming social and interactive with language
Eve V. Clark | Stanford University, USA
Children interact with others from early in infancy: They smile in response to smiles, follow adult gaze, attend to objects others are looking at, mimic adult intonation contours in their babbling, and make use of gestures and actions to attract attention. They interact more intensively as they advance from crawling to walking. When they begin to talk, they add words to their gestures and gradually move on to more complex utterances. But to communicate content effectively, children must take turns in conversational exchanges. For this, they need to contribute appropriate content and get the timing right so that they come in on time when they answer a question or make a further contribution to the ongoing conversation.
Keywords: pragmatic development, turn taking, gesture, conversational skills, contingency
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Precursors to conversational turn taking
- 3.From gestures to words
- 4.Taking turns
- 5.Constructing utterances together
- 6.Fine-tuning the timing
- 7.Conclusion
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Published online: 18 July 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.21.02cla
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.21.02cla
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