Publications

Publication details [#48666]

Geer, Boel De, Tiia Tulviste and Marja-Terttu Tryggvason. 2008. How do preschool children engage each other in dialogue in Finland, Estonia and Sweden? Multilingua 27 (4) : 389–408.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | context | dialogue | greeting | pre-school age

Language as a subject

Estonian | Finnish | Swedish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This crosslinguistic study compares how preschool children in Finland, Estonia and Sweden elicit talk from each other in a naturalistic play activity. The findings indicate that the symmetrical child–child free play context influenced the choice of structures for eliciting talk.