June 5, 2005
Chapter 3.
Conversation:
The Language
Learning Environment.
Chapter Three
Fact Formulators
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Hayley Wages
Thursday, June 2, 2005 11:04 am
* Conversation refers to the entire speech ecology.
* We give cues to children in different ways to show that it is their turn to
talk.
* Children are participating in conversation early on.
* Children learn techniques to repair problems in conversation.
* Motherese is common among middle class, Anglo-Saxons. If Motherese is spoken
it can be beneficial for the child in language development.
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Cassandra Y. Deaton
Friday, June 3, 2005 10:15 pm
1. From the very beginning, when children speak to others, they are carrying on a conversation. Children do not learn how to speak and then how to carry on a conversation, they learn both at the same time.
2. Adults teach children how to carry on a conversation by directly addressing the child and by slowly teaching the child about taking turns in the conversation.
4. Children learn to repair problems in their conversations at a very early age, around 18 months.
5. Motherese is a conversational style often used by Anglo-Saxon mothers to communicate with their children. The speech is redundant, simple, higher pitched, and changes to match the speech of the child. It is generally associated with middle-class women.
Chapter Three
Word Wizards
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Leia Jackson
Friday, June 3, 2005 5:14pm
Conversation refers to the entire speech ecology. It is talking back and forth.
A summons is an adult-child greeting to enter conversation by taking a turn at talk and fitting that talk
to the previous greeting
A cue is something said that offers the child a turn at talk and pause to give the child a chance to take
a turn.
First pair parts are followed by adult speech in response.
Second pair parts are preceeded by a comment or question.
An adjacency pair is when two "matched" turns are spoken by different speakers but placed one right after
the other.
Self-initiated repairs are repairs initiated by the current speaker.
Other-initiated repairs are initiated by the other speaker.
A distinctive pitch contour which leads to labeling a repair of initiation is a question repeat.
A side sequence is when one repeats the example of an other- initiated repair arranged to show a time
out sequence.
Motherese is a mother's speech to children
Chapter Three
Cyber Citer Summarizers
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Jennifer Lovette
Friday, June 3, 2005 8:09am
Chapter 3 discusses how children interact in conversation. In the first section, Children's
Speech as Conversation, children have conversations early in life. They don't
neccessarily have to involve speech. Children's development takes place during
conversation. In the second section, Learning to Take Turns in Conversation, we learn
that a child learns to take turns by cues or summons. This is done by pauses in the
conversation. In the next section, Arranging Turns in Sequence, Children need to learn
how to respond in sequence. Adjacency pairs are used to form a conversation, for
example, greeting/greeting, question/answer, invitation/acceptance or rejection, and
statement/agreement. In the section, Repair of Problems in Conversation, self-initiated
repairs and other-initiated repairs are used to correct mistakes in conversation. Self-
initiated is when the speaker corrects their own mistakes. Other initiated repairs is when
mistakes are corrected by the other person or the other person says that there is a
mistake. In Contribution of Adult-Child Conversation to Language Development,
motherese is given as an example of the way mother's communicate with their children.
In the last section, The Motherese Debate, researchers address the topic as controversial
because they are not sure exactly what Motherese teaches. There are also many places
where children develop fine without the help of motherese.
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Melinda O'Malley
Saturday, June 4, 2005 7:49pm
Children begin to learn language as they actively participate with others. Their speech
occurs mostly in conversations with adults and especially caretakers. These
conversations begin very early in a child's life. An important aspect of conversation is
learning how to take turns appropriately. This process usually begins very slow at a
young age and progresses and their turn-taking abilities sharpen as they get older and
are more experienced. Another aspect of conversation that is important is the
development of repairing problems in speech. There are two types of repair that include
self-initiated repairs and other-initiated repairs. Amazingly, children begin to make such
repairs by eighteen months of age. The contribution of adult-child conversation, such as
the use of motherese, is highly debated. Some researchers believe it is an essential part
of learning speech, and others believe the impact of motherese is questionable.
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Brooke E. Parker [beparke@uark.edu]
Mon 6/6/2005 10:07 AM
Children learn language as active participants in interactions with others. Children are born into a world of speech events that can best be called conversations. Conversation is talking back and forth. The most fundamental "fact" of conversation is that speakers take turns. Between the ages of two and six the child gradually sharpens and quickens turn-taking skills. As children enter the human conversation, they need to learn not only to take individual turns, but also to arrange these turns so they form sequences. They need to learn to use adjacency pairs- two "matched" turns spoken by different speakers but placed one right after the other. In adult speech and child speech, self-initiated repairs are much more frequent than other-initiated repairs. A mother's speech (motherese) is simple and redundant, a simplified register of talk, a sort of teaching register, that presents to the child a clear set of formats for dialogue.
Chapter Three
Quiz Questors
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Kelli C. Jones
Thursday, June 2, 2005 6:05 pm
Q1) What do we mean when we say that conversations involve the entire speech ecology?
We mean that speech is a biological process and also that we see the person speak, hear their tone, and are exposed to sound, sentence structure, human interaction, and to people doing things as they speak.
Q2) Give an example of how an adult summons a child into conversation.
The child is greeted by name and the adult's hand is extended to tickle or shake hands.
Q3) True or False: In other-initiated repair, the initiator indicates that there is a problem but allows the speaker to make the correction.
Answer: True
Q4) Greeting/greeting, Question/answer, and Invitation/reply are known as what?
- Adjacency pairs
- Motherese
- Conversation
Answer: Adjacency pairs
Q5) List three characteristics of motherese:
Answer: High pitch, redundant, simple
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Zane J. Graham
Friday, June 3, 2005 9:50 pm
1. Q. The term conservation refers to the __________.
A. entire speech ecology
2. Q. The most fundamental fact of conversation is _________.
A. speakers take turns
3. Q. The speaker repairs their conversation using this ________.
A. self-initiated repair
4. Q. _____ is when someone besides the speaker repairs a conversation problem.
A. Other-initiated repair
5. Q. _____ is simple and redundant speech between mother and child.
A. Motherese
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