RT Journal Article
T1 Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: a longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two- year-olds
A1 Casla, Marta
A1 Méndez-Cabezas, Celia
A1 Montero, Ignacio
A1 Murillo Sanz, Eva
A1 Nieva Ramos, Silvia
A1 Rodríguez, Jessica
AB The role of children’s verbal repetition of parents’ utterances on vocabulary growth has been well documented (Masur, 1999). Nevertheless, few studies have analyzed adults’ and children’s spontaneous verbal repetition around the second birthday distinguishing between the types of repetition. We analyzed longitudinally Spanish-speaking parent-child dyads during spontaneous interaction at 21, 24 and 30 months. Linguistic level was measured using the Spanish version of the MacArthur CDI (López-Ornat et al., 2005). Children’s and adults’ repetitions are about 17% of the speech. Children repeated adults’ utterances in a reduced manner whereas adults produced more extended repetitions. Adults’ rate of repetition predicted children’s linguistic level at 30 months. Children’s rate of repetition did not predict linguistic level. These results suggest that parents adapt their speech to children’s communicative abilities. Since children’s rate of repetition did not predict linguistic level, we suggest that verbal imitation plays an indirect and complex role in communicative development.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 1469-7602
YR 2021
FD 2021-03-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98330
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/98330
LA eng
NO Casla, M., Méndez-Cabezas, C., Montero, I., Murillo, E., Nieva, S., & Rodríguez, J. (2022). Spontaneous verbal repetition in toddler-adult conversations: A longitudinal study with Spanish-speaking two-year-olds. Journal of Child Language, 49(2), 266-301.  https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000921000015
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades
DS Docta Complutense
RD 28 sept 2024