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Divergently Seeking Clarification: The Emergence of Clarification Interaction
Jonathan Ginzburg1, Dimitra Kolliakou1
1Laboratoire de linguistique formelle (UMR 7110), Université Paris-Diderot-CNRS.
Topics in Cognitive Science
|March 26, 2018
Summary
Elliptical clarification requests in child English emerge later than expected. Reprise sluices appear before reprise fragments, despite fragments being more common in adult input and simpler to produce.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Developmental Psychology
- Child Language Acquisition
Background:
- Clarification requests challenge semantic theories by questioning shared content and context.
- Elliptical clarification requests, particularly reprise fragments and reprise sluices, present complexities in language acquisition due to parallelism requirements.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the puzzling emergence order of elliptical clarification requests in child English.
- To explain why reprise fragments appear later than reprise sluices in child language development.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of child English corpora (Belfast and Manchester from CHILDES).
- Comparison of the frequency and emergence order of reprise fragments and reprise sluices.
- Grammatical explication of the differences between reprise fragments and reprise sluices.
Main Results:
- Reprise fragments emerge significantly later than reprise sluices in child English.
- Reprise fragments are more frequent in adult input but emerge later in children's speech.
- Reprise sluices are less semantically complex than reprise fragments.
Conclusions:
- The order of emergence is not solely based on input frequency or production simplicity.
- Grammatical structure and semantic complexity play a crucial role in the acquisition of clarification requests.
- Reprise sluices are acquired earlier due to their lower semantic complexity compared to reprise fragments.
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