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Publication details [#31942]

Quasthoff, Uta M. and Heiko Hausendorf. 1992. Patterns of adult-child interaction as a mechanism of discourse acquisition. Journal of Pragmatics 17 (3) : 241–259.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | discourse, teaching of | interaction

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This analysis of patterns of adult-child interaction demonstrates that adult listeners systematically adjust their elicitation behavior to the child narrator's age, thus offering a structural frame for the acquisition of developmentally relevant discourse abilities.