BECOMING A CONVERSATIONALIST DESPITE (OR BECAUSE OF) HAVING AN OLDER SIBLING
BECOMING A CONVERSATIONALIST DESPITE (OR BECAUSE OF) HAVING AN OLDER SIBLING
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1989.tb02724.x
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发表时间:
1989-04-01
影响因子:
4.6
通讯作者:
SHATZ, M
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作者:
DUNN, J;SHATZ, M
Children grow up in a family world where much of the talk is not addressed to them. This study examined the question of whether young children attend to and understand the topic of such talk by analyzing their intrusions into conversations between their mothers and older siblings. Six children were observed at home at 24, 26, 28, 30, 33 and 36 months. Intrusions formed a considerable proportion of their talk; in the course of the third year, children took up an increasing proportion of opportunities to intrude, their intrusions were more likely to include new and relevant information, and such new/relevant intrusions were most likely to lead to a response. While there was no decrease in children''s tendency to talk about themselves, there was an increase in intrusions in which children turned the topic from other to self in a relevant way. It is argued that as early as the third year children are becoming effective participants in a multispeaker world, and that the conversations between others from an important, but relatively unstudied source of linguistic input for children.