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Some features of early child–adult dialogues1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Susan Ervin-Tripp
Susan Ervin-Tripp
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University of California, Berkeley
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Adaptations to a partner perceived to be conversationally incompetent can be heard in speech to children, the hard-of-hearing, foreigners, speakers with certain speech defects, the aged, and hospital patients. These adaptations may be controlled partially by the actual performance of partners in conversations, through influences on perceived ability. The first half of this paper describes specific changes in children's conversational abilities in early childhood, which in turn may serve to alter how their partners judge their abilities to understand. The second half of the paper addresses the evidence regarding the level and types of changes in adult speech to children as the child's ability changes.

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Articles: Sequencing in Children's Discourse
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Language in Society , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , December 1978 , pp. 357 - 373
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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