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The Role of Addressee Backchannels and Conversational Grounding in Vicarious Word Learning in Four-Year-Olds
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Tolins, Jackson; Namiranian, Neda; Akhtar, Nameera; Fox Tree, Jean E. – First Language, 2017
Children successfully learn words through overhearing others engaged in verbal interactions. The current studies investigated the degree to which four-year-old overhearers are influenced by the response behaviors of addressees and by the interactional pattern of the speakers and addressees. It was found that while addressee responses on their own…
Descriptors: Young Children, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Dialogs (Language)