Abstract:Children learning their mother tongue engage in interactive communication starting from the early stages of their development.In a large-scale study of transcribed child-caregiver conversations, we investigated the role of Communicative Feedback in response to children's grammatical errors.We found evidence for both positive and negative feedback signals that are useful for learning the grammar of one's native language: Caregivers are more likely to provide acknowledgments if an utterance is grammatical, and t… Show more
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