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Talking to Children in Tsotsil Mayan: Interactional Formats in Child-Directed Communication across Multigenerational Caregivers
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Lourdes de León; Rosnátaly Avelino Sierra – First Language, 2024
Research on the acquisition of Mayan languages has shown child-directed communication (CDC) to be low in frequency. Nevertheless, long-term linguistic-anthropological research with the Tsotsil Mayan in Southern Mexico has documented episodes in family life when children engage in interactional routines or interactional formats (IFs) with their…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Caregiver Child Relationship, Classification, Family Relationship
What Else Will I Do When I Start School? Preschoolers' "Wh"-Questions in Dinnertime Conversations and Their Language Development
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Junyi Yang; Joshua F. Lawrence; Vibeke Grøver – First Language, 2024
While it is established that parental "wh"-questions, as a high-quality language input, are associated with child language outcome, less is known about the role of children's "wh"-questions in their language development. This study examines whether children's "wh"-questions during a dinnertime conversation are…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Parent Child Relationship, Family Characteristics, Expressive Language