Language in Interaction Trends in Language Acquisition Research TiLAR publishes monographs, edited volumes and text books on theoretical and methodological issues in the field of child language research. The focus of the series is on original research on all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, linking different areas of research including linguistics, psychology & cognitive science. For an overview of all books published in this series, please see http://benjamins.com/catalog/tilar Series Editors Shanley Allen Caroline F. Rowland University of Kaiserslautern University of Liverpool [email protected] [email protected] Editorial Board Ruth A. Berman Paul Fletcher Tel Aviv University University College Cork Morten H. Christiansen Steven Gillis Cornell University University of Antwerp Jean Berko Gleason Annick De Houwer Boston University University of Erfurt Nancy Budwig Elena Lieven Clark University Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Ewa Dąbrowska University of Sheffield Brian MacWhinney Carnegie Mellon University Philip S. Dale University of New Mexico Marilyn Vihman University of York Volume 12 Language in Interaction. Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark Edited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia Language in Interaction Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark Edited by Inbal Arnon Hebrew University, Jerusalem Marisa Casillas Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Chigusa Kurumada University of Rochester Bruno Estigarribia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of 8 the American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. CIP data is available from the Library of Congress. Trends in Language Acquisition Research, issn 1569-0644 ; v. 12 isbn 978 90 272 4401 7 (Hb ; alk. paper) isbn 978 90 272 7030 6 (Eb) © 2014 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa Table of contents Acknowledgements vii List of contributors i x Introduction: Language acquisition in interaction 1 Chigusa Kurumada and Inbal Arnon part 1. The social and interactional nature of language input (five papers) Conversational input to bilingual children 1 3 Susan Ervin-Tripp Social environments shape children’s language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabulary 2 9 Adriana Weisleder and Anne Fernald The interactional context of language learning in Tzeltal 51 Penelope Brown Conversation and language acquisition: Unique properties and effects 83 Edy Veneziano Taking the floor on time: Delay and deferral in children’s turn taking 101 Marisa Casillas part 2. The role of paralinguistic information in language learning (three papers) Temporal synchrony in early multi-modal communication 117 Barbara F. Kelly Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf children 139 Aliyah Morgenstern Language in Interaction How gesture helps children learn language 157 Susan Goldin-Meadow part 3. Pragmatic forces in language learning (six papers) Referential pacts in child language development 175 Gemma Stephens and Danielle Matthews “We call it as puppy”: Pragmatic factors in bilingual language choice 191 Medha Tare and Susan A. Gelman Learning words through probabilistic inferences about speakers’ communicative intentions 207 Michael C. Frank Word order as a structural cue and word reordering as an interactional process in early language acquisition 231 Aylin C. Küntay and Duygu Özge The discourse basis of the Korean copula construction in acquisition 251 Patricia M. Clancy Emergent clause-combining in adult-child interactional contexts 281 Ruth A. Berman and Lyle Lustigman part 4. Interactional effects on language structure and use (three papers) Analytic and holistic processing in the development of constructions 303 Joan Bybee From speech with others to speech for self: A case study of “externalized drama” 315 Dan I. Slobin How to talk with children 333 Herbert H. Clark Index 353 Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge the tremendous support given by the TiLAR series editors, Shanley Allen and Caroline Rowland, who read all the chapters and pro- vided us with insightful comments. We would also like to thank all the external reviewers who participated in the peer-review process: David Barner, Heike Behrens, Adele Goldberg, Susanne Grassmann, Petra Hendriks, Erika Hoff, Evan Kidd, Mardi Kidwell, Dave Kleinschmidt, Elena Lieven, Katherine Nelson, Elinor Ochs, Asli Özyürek, Felicia Roberts, Julie Sedivy, Ludovica Serratice, and Susan Wagner-Cook. List of contributors Editors: Penelope Brown ([email protected]) Inbal Arnon Max Planck Institute for ([email protected]) Psycholinguistics Psychology department, Hebrew PO Box 310 University 6500 AH Nijmegen Mount Scopus, Jerusalem The Netherlands Marisa Casillas Joan Bybee ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Max Planck Institute for Professor Emerita Psycholinguistics Department of Linguistics Postbus 310 University of New Mexico 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 Chigusa Kurumada USA ([email protected]) Herbert H. Clark Department of Brain and Cognitive ([email protected]) Sciences Jordan Hall, Room 302 University of Rochester 450 Serra Mall Meliora Hall, Rochester, NY 14627 Stanford, CA 94305-2150 Bruno Estigarribia Patricia Clancy ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Dey Hall, Room 332, CB# 3170 Department of Linguistics, South Hall University of North Carolina 3607 at Chapel Hill University of California, Santa Barbara Authors: Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3100 Ruth Berman Susan Ervin-Tripp ([email protected]) ([email protected]) Linguistics Department, Tel-Aviv Department of Psychology University 3210 Tolman Hall, Tel-Aviv, Israel University of California Berkeley CA 94720-1650