The relation of children's single word utterances to single word utterances in the input

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20367828
AutoresAnat Ninio (0000-0001-6797-5687, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, autor de correspondencia)
Año1992
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas87-110
Fecha de publicación1992-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Child Language (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0305000900013647
PMID1551935
OpenAlexW2166046526
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas32

The reported study investigated the relation between children's single-word utterances and maternal single-word utterances expressing similar communicative intents. Twenty-four Hebrew-speaking dyads (the children about 1;6) were videotaped for 30 min in an unstructured session. Single-word utterances were analysed for their communicative intent and the relationship of the expression to the underlying intent was defined in the form of realization rules. Of 17,471 child utterances, 97·0% were realizations that were also used by mothers for expressing the same communicative intent. The most frequently modelled rule for an intent had the highest chance of being adopted by children, and the probability sharply decreased for the relatively less frequently modelled rules. The results suggest that children's single-word utterances are similar to, and probably learned from, single-word utterances of caretakers expressing the same specific communicative intents

Linguistics · Communication · Language Development and Disorders · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Psychology · Speech and dialogue systems