Coherency in children's discourse |
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| Authors: | Elinor Ochs Keenan Ewan Klein |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Linguistics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
2. Unit for Research in Medical Applications of Psychology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
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| Abstract: | We provide evidence that the capacity of young children to engage in social interaction exceeds that suggested by Piaget (1926). Rather than being collective monologues, the conversations between the subjects of this study (twin boys) were dialogues: the children attended to one another's utterances and provided relevant responses. This was observed for conversations which were referentially based as well as for sound play exchanges. This is not to say that the children experienced no difficulty in sustaining cooperative discourse. It could take a speaker several turns to secure the attention of the coconversationalist and establish a discourse topic. |
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