On the role of pragmatics in child-directed speech for the acquisition of verb morphology
| Autor: | Sari Kunnari, Ira A. Noveck, Angeliek van Hout, Maria Teresa Guasti, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Kazuko Yatsushiro, Shira Farby, Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Darinka Andjelkovic, Mirta Vernice, Jessica Overweg, Arve Asbjørnsen, Margreet van Koert, Gordana Hrzica, Jelena Kuvač Kraljević, Smiljana Jošić, Maria-José Ezeizabarrena, Aneta Miękisz, Helen Grech, Heather K. J. van der Lely, Kristine M. Jensen de López, Maja Savić, Svetlana Kapalková, Jurate Ruzaite, Anja Hubert, Duygu Özge, Daniela Gatt, Napoleon Katsos, Manana Rusieshvili, Nafsika Smith, Katerina Konstantzou, Anna Gavarró, Daniela Slančová, Ingrida Balciuniene, Saima Hassan, Janne von Koss Torkildsen, Christopher C. Cummins, Ewa Haman, Tiffany Morisseau, Lone Sundahl, Tania Barberán Recalde, Sirli Parm, Maigi Vija, Uli Sauerland, Athina Skordi, Bart Hollebrandse, Myrthe Faber, Julia Puzanova, Natalia Gagarina |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Computer science 05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Pragmatics Language acquisition 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics language.human_language Psycholinguistics Linguistics Focus (linguistics) German Artificial Intelligence 0602 languages and literature language Developmental linguistics 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Natural language Generative grammar |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pragmatics. 41:219-239 |
| ISSN: | 0378-2166 |
| Popis: | The important role that pragmatics plays in the acquisition of morphology has been hardly studied. In this contribution we focus on the pragmatic strategies of adult caretakers in their reactions to children's early morphological productions in three different languages (French, German, Lithuanian). The most relevant distinction proposed is that between metadiscursive and conversational reactions, i.e. between reactions on linguistic form and on content. In contrast to the latter, the former represent interruptions of the flow of interaction. The distribution of these two types of reactions provides the child with abundant direct and indirect positive and negative evidence about whether his/her preceding morphological production has been well formed or ill formed. Among these reactions, which may consist in reformulations, expansions, and others, we emphasize particularly repetitions and their pragmatic functions and show that they are partially specific to child-directed speech. A special type of young children's morphological productions are bare infinitives. In contrast to their grammar-theoretical accounts in generative studies, we follow a pragmatic approach, based on child-directed speech and caretakers’ reactions, which evidences the caretakers’ tolerance of ambiguity and thus the importance of inferential work in child-adult interactions. Despite great grammatical differences between French, German and Lithuanian, the pragmatic strategies used by caretakers are very similar in quality and quantity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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