Carmiol, A.M., Matthews, D. orcid.org/0000-0003-3562-9549 and Rodríguez-Villagra, O.A. (2018) How children learn to produce appropriate referring expressions in narratives: the role of clarification requests and modeling. Journal of Child Language, 45 (3). ISSN 0305-0009
Abstract
Asking children to clarify themselves promotes their ability to uniquely identify objects in referential communication tasks. However, little is known about whether parents ask preschoolers for clarification during interactions and, if so, how. Study 1 explored how mothers clarify their preschoolers' ambiguous descriptions of the characters in their narratives, and whether clarification requests affect children's repairs of their ambiguous descriptions. Mothers were found to use different strategies, including signaling misunderstanding and modeling appropriate descriptions. Presence of these different strategies predicted children's ability to provide informative repairs. Study 2 tested the effect of children's experience with signaling misunderstanding and modeling on their ability to uniquely identify the characters of a story on a second narration. Experiencing modeling, but not misunderstandings, positively affected children's provision of appropriate descriptions during second narrations. Findings are discussed in terms of the role of imitation in driving referential development.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Child Language. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number BRITISH ACADEMY (THE) LAC Round 2010 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2017 14:14 |
Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2023 14:54 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0305000917000381 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:124027 |
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