PSY 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Red Balloon, Communication, I Hear Music
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Sections: conversational development, language in the school. Turn-taking implies that participants should be fast to take a turn after adult turn has ended (adjacent utterances). Recall that one of grice"s maxims of conversation is to be relevant. As such, children should also develop the ability to be share topic of adult utterance and add to it (contingent utterances): findings (bloom et al. , 1976): 19-23 months: utterances highly adjacent (69%), but those adjacent utterances not very contingent (21%) Piaget: due to egocentrism of preoperational children (ages 2-7), should not be able to modify speech for particular addressees. 4-year-olds asked to tell different partners about toy. With children, used shorter/simpler sentences: in the preschool-1st grade years, children navigate waters from narration of events to storytelling. Like turn-taking and audience design, another important skill for social and academic purposes in school. By 1st grade, show high sensitivity to differences between narrating movie (the.
