"¿What?", ?¿What do you mean?" A longitudinal study of the repair movements in spontaneous conversations between parents and children from Argentina

CELIA ROSEMBERG; GUADALUPE ROCHA ; ALEJANDRA STEIN; FLORENCIA ALAM ; ALEJANDRA MENTI

Lyon

Congreso; 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language.; 2017

International Association for the Study of Child Language

The aim of the study is to longitudinally analyze the repair movements produced in parent-child conversations at home. Previous studies mainly carried out in experimental settings with English speaking population showed the relevance of repair practices for language development and communicative skills (Corrin, 2010).The data of the present study consists of 56 conversations during mealtime and storybook reading situations audio-recorded in the homes of 12 middle-income children from Argentina when they were 2;6, 3 and 3;6 years old. A qualitative analysis was carried out combining the Grounded Theory and conversation analysis. We also carried out a multiple regression analysis considering different aspects of the repair movements as dependent variables (who initiated the repair movement, type of repair, response to the repair, among others) and age and type of situation as predictors. Results showed that in both situations and in the three moments considered there prevailed extended and specific repair movements that adopted the form of questions and that the children responded providing more information that contributed to restoring mutual comprehension. The multiple regression analysis showed that both age (p