Quantifying Categorical and Conceptual Convergence in Child-Adult Dialogue
Year: 2014
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Using corpus-based methods inspired by recurrence quantification analysis, we investigate the patterns that shape coordination in dialogue, in particular during the process of language acquisition.We show that the turn-by-turn temporal development of conversation is a key factor influencing when and how interlocutors match each other's linguistic representations.Although there is continuity between child-adult and adult-adult dialogue with respect to alignment of semantic representations, our results show important differences regarding syntactic alignment in adjacent turns, with adults showing less cross-speaker syntactic matches than expected by chance.
Authors: Fernández, R., Grimm, R.M.
Institutions: University of Amsterdam, Utrecht University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2395155035