Publications

Publication details [#55518]

Gelman, Susan A. and Medha Tare. 2011. Bilingual parents' modeling of pragmatic language use in multiparty interactions. Applied Psycholinguistics 32 (4) : 761–780.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | language use | mother-child conversation | multiparty conversation | pragmatic competence

Language as a subject

English | Marathi

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Analyzing multiparty interactions among bilingual English-Marathi speaking parent–child pairs and monolingual bystanders, this study argues that parents model pragmatic language differentiation and metalinguistic strategies that may enhance children's metalinguistic awareness.