Bohn, Manuel and da Silva Vieira, Wilson Filipe and Giner Torrens, Marta and Kaertner, Joscha and Itakura, Shoji and Cavalcante, Lilia and Haun, Daniel and Koester, Moritz and Kanngiesser, Patricia (2024) Mealtime Conversations Between Parents and Their 2-Year-Old Children in Five Cultural Contexts. DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 60 (7). pp. 1255-1268. ISSN 0012-1649, 1939-0599
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Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children (N = 99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk and gestures as well as their conversational embedding (interlocutors, function, and themes). We found a comparable pattern of communicative interactions across cultural settings, which were modified in ways that are consistent with local norms and values. These results suggest that children encounter similarly structured communicative environments across diverse cultural contexts and will inform theories of language learning.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR; CAREGIVER SPEECH; LANGUAGE INPUT; RECOGNITION; ACQUISITION; ONTOGENY; ENGLISH; MATTERS; FRENCH; NOUNS; language acquisition; communication; gesture; cross-cultural psychology; parent-child interaction |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Developmental Cognitive Psychology – Prof. Dr. Dr. Moritz Köster |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2025 07:30 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2025 07:30 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/65063 |
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