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Publication details [#60281]
Rendle-Short, Johanna, Nicolette Bramley and Louise Skelt. 2015. Speaking to Twin Children: Evidence Against the “Impoverishment” Thesis. Research on Language and Social Interaction 48 (1) : 79–99.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Annotation
This case study exemplifies how talk to twins need not be depleted. An Australian English speaking mother employs gaze to show simultaneous receptivity in response to concurrent rivalry for notice from both children, and her twins continually check the ongoing interaction in order to fittingly insert their own interactional contributions.