Early Language Experience in a Tseltal Mayan Village

Autor/inn/en	Casillas, Marisa; Brown, Penelope; Levinson, Stephen C.
Titel	Early Language Experience in a Tseltal Mayan Village
Quelle	In: Child Development, 91 (2020) 5, S.1819-1835 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Casillas, Marisa)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/cdev.13349
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Verbal Communication; Interaction; Speech Communication; Age Differences; Time; Family Structure; Children; Adults; Language Acquisition; Mayan Languages; Family Environment; Mexico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Interaktion; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Zeit; Familienkonstellation; Familiensystem; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Familienmilieu; Mexiko
Abstract	Daylong at-home audio recordings from 10 Tseltal Mayan children (0;2-3;0; Southern Mexico) were analyzed for how often children engaged in verbal interaction with others and whether their speech environment changed with age, time of day, household size, and number of speakers present. Children were infrequently directly spoken to, with most directed speech coming from adults, and no increase with age. Most directed speech came in the mornings, and interactional peaks contained nearly four times the baseline rate of directed speech. Coarse indicators of children's language development (babbling, first words, first word combinations) suggest that Tseltal children manage to extract the linguistic information they need despite minimal directed speech. Multiple proposals for how they might do so are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01