Manuel Bohn, Wilson Filipe da Silva Vieira, Marta Giner Torréns, Joscha Kärtner, Shoji Itakura, Lília Cavalcante, Daniel Haun, Moritz Köster, Patricia Kanngiesser
Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children ( N = 99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk and gestures as well as their conversational embedding (interlocutors, function, and themes)...
February 26, 2024: Developmental Psychology