Referential Interactions of Turkish-Learning Children with Their Caregivers about Non-Absent Objects: Integration of Non-Verbal Devices and Prior Discourse

Autor/inn/en	Ates, Beyza S.; Küntay, Aylin C.
Titel	Referential Interactions of Turkish-Learning Children with Their Caregivers about Non-Absent Objects: Integration of Non-Verbal Devices and Prior Discourse
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 45 (2018) 1, S.148-173 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
Schlagwörter	Turkish; Child Language; Language Acquisition; Nonverbal Communication; Linguistic Input; Parent Child Relationship; Role; Language Patterns; Caregiver Child Relationship; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Türkisch; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Sprachbildung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Rollen; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur
Abstract	This paper examines the way children younger than two use non-verbal devices (i.e., deictic gestures and communicative functional acts) and pay attention to discourse status (i.e., prior mention vs. newness) of referents in interactions with caregivers. Data based on semi-naturalistic interactions with caregivers of four children, at ages 1;00, 1;05, and 1;09, are analyzed. We report that children employ different types of non-verbal devices to supplement their inadequate referential forms before gaining mastery in language. By age 1;09, children show sensitivity to discourse status by using deictic gestures to accompany their non-lexical forms for new referents. A comparison of children's patterns with those in the input they receive reveals that caregivers choose their referential forms in accordance with discourse status information and tend to use different types of non-verbal devices to accompany their lexical and non-lexical referential forms. These results show that non-verbal devices play an important role in early referential discourse. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01