Publications

Publication details [#5547]

Kirkman, Maggie and Toni G. Cross. 1984. Functional diversity as a developmental phenomenon in child and parent conversation. Proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of Child Language 2 (2) : 360–378.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
adaptation | adult-child conversation | age | deafness | input language | language proficiency

Annotation

An examination of the importance of age and language ability to conversational skills in children; and of the question whether maternal speech includes functional adaptations to the child's language ability. The study includes pre-lingual children and deaf children, next to speaking children of different ages.