Adaptation in Child Directed Speech: Evidence from Corpora
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| Publication date | 2011 |
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| Book title | SemDial 2011 (Los Angelogue) |
| Book subtitle | Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue : September 21-23, 2011, Los Angeles, California |
| Series | Proceedings SemDial |
| Event | SemDial 2011 (the 15th SEMDIAL Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue) |
| Pages (from-to) | 112-119 |
| Publisher | Los Angeles, California: Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California |
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| Abstract |
This paper investigates the dynamics of child-directed speech in longitudinal data from the CHILDES corpus. We quantify the complexity of the speech used by each dialogue participant using simple measures. Our results show that there is a strong correlation in all measures between the complexity of the child’s and the mother’s utterances, indicating that adults adapt their speech at different levels of linguistic processing when interacting with children in dialogue. These correlations remain, albeit weaker, after controling for the effects of the child’s age and for local repetitions in the corpus.
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| Document type | Conference contribution |
| Language | English |
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