The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage
Year: 2003
Type: dissertation
Abstract: limited to the "here and now."This caregiver talk, or motherese 18 , is rich in display questions (questions which seek information already apparent to the asker) and repetitive naming routines (What is that?Is that a truck?Do you see the truck?).Caregivers may also accommodate to the grammatical properties, real or imagined, of their young listeners' speech (Does her have a ball?-my own examples).What is suprisingly absent from caregiver talk is negative input, or error correction.Caregivers tend to focus on the truth value and communicative efficacy of their children's speech rather than on its grammatical maturity.And in those rare instances when a caregiver offers grammatical error correction, young children seldom attend to this input.One famous illustration of this fact has been provided by Braine (1971): Example 2.3 Child: Want other one spoon, Daddy.Father: You mean, you want "the other spoon" Child: Yes, I want other one spoon, please, Daddy.Father: Can you say "the other spoon"?
Author: John Stewart
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1648443489