Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech

Autor/inn/en	Reimchen, Melissa; Soderstrom, Melanie
Titel	Do Questions Get Infants Talking? Infant Vocal Responses to Questions and Declaratives in Maternal Speech
Quelle	In: Infant and Child Development, 26 (2017) 3, (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1522-7227
DOI	10.1002/icd.1985
Schlagwörter	Infants; Language Acquisition; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Play; Questioning Techniques; Speech Acts; Responses; Verbal Communication; Age Differences; Repetition; Intonation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Spiel; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Sprechakt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Wiederholung
Abstract	Maternal questions play a crucial role in early language acquisition by virtue of their special grammatical, prosodic and lexical forms, and their abundance in the input. Infants are able to discriminate questions from other sentence types and produce rising intonations in their own requests. This study examined whether caregiver questions were related to the quantity of infant vocalizations. Thirty-six infants aged 10 and 14 months participated in a laboratory play session with their mothers. In separate blocks, mothers were instructed to ask questions and to refrain from asking questions. Both block-level and utterance-level analyses found no evidence that maternal questions affected the amount of infant-response vocalizations. Mothers of 14-month-olds (but not 10-month-olds) tended to repeat questions. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01