The emergence of early grammar : a conversation analytic perspective
The thesis takes a new methodological lens to an old phenomenon by investigating successive child utterances from a conversation analytic perspective. It is theoretically significant that this phenomenon typifies the transition from single-word to constructed multi-word speech, and therefore signals the emergence of early grammar. Whilst past child language research has characterised the developmental emergence of the phenomenon, a conversation analytic (CA) perspective proves sensitive to questions of on-line emergence. The thesis reveals how successive child utterances are occasioned during the moment-by-moment activity of speaking and listening that constitutes child- adult discourse. The data comprise a longitudinal sample of audio- and video-recordings of three child- mother dyads at home during play, taken during the 16-22 month age period. By working in an analytical cycle of data observation and transcription, the study explicates individual instances in fine-grained detail. The inductive methods of CA uncover how a succession of child utterances is designed by both participants to constitute a moment of their ongoing sequence of interaction, and how these 'turns' are occasioned as opportunities for
Corrin, Juliette
The emergence of early grammar : a conversation analytic perspective. The thesis takes a new methodological lens to an old phenomenon by investigating successive child utterances from a conversation analytic perspective. It is theoretically significant that this phenomenon typifies the transition from single-word to constructed multi-word speech, and therefore signals the emergence of early grammar. Whilst past child language research has characterised the developmental emergence of the phenomenon, a conversation analytic (CA) perspective proves sensitive to questions of on-line emergence. The thesis reveals how successive child utterances are occasioned during the moment-by-moment activity of speaking and listening that constitutes child- adult discourse. The data comprise a longitudinal sample of audio- and video-recordings of three child- mother dyads at home during play, taken during the 16-22 month age period. By working in an analytical cycle of data observation and transcription, the study explicates individual instances in fine-grained detail. The inductive methods of CA uncover how a succession of child utterances is designed by both participants to constitute a moment of their ongoing sequence of interaction, and how these 'turns' are occasioned as opportunities for
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