questions on MLT of children

[Kimary Shahin]

Hi Elly,

There is some look at MLT in:

Mckellin, William H; Shahin, Kimary; Hodgson, Murray; Jamieson, Janet; Pichora-Fuller, Kathleen (2007), "Pragmatics of conversation and communication in noisy settings ", Journal of Pragmatics 39 (12): 2159-2184.

The abstract of this article is below.

- Kimary Shahin


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Abstract
Most analyses of discourse pragmatics assume a quiet setting that does not affect the interaction. This study examines two common, communicationally hostile environmental contexts that make demands on the perceptual, cognitive, and pragmatic dimensions of language and multimodal communication. It identifies strategies which discourse participants use to recover the information lost or degraded in noisy conversational interaction, and the repairs and conversational strategies they use if they recognize that communication has failed. We recorded the conversational discourse interaction of 6 normally-hearing adults in a restaurant setting and 24 normally-hearing children in elementary-school classrooms, using ear-level binaural microphones, head-mounted bullet cameras, and tripod-mounted video cameras. This yielded extensive audiotape and videotape data from the perspectives of individual listeners and speakers, and information about the interaction among participants. Our data indicate that the strategies employed in these settings are similar to those employed by people who are hard-of-hearing, and that usage-based linguistic theories and cognitivist theories of language processing, interaction, and pragmatics, that ignore language perception, are inadequate. 



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> Date: Wed Dec 12 08:49:05 PST 2007
> From: "zhang li1231" <zhang.li1231 at gmail.com>
> Subject: questions on MLT of children
> To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
>
> Dear all,
>        Recently I am interested in children's participation in the
> conversation and have learned that Mean Length of Turns is a basic measure
> of children's conversational skills.I want to have a further study on this
> measure,however,could hardly find any.What ever does Mean Length of Turns
> means?Is there any study on MLT of children?Or is there any effective
> measures that can reflect children's turn-taking in the
> conversation?Moreover,if I want to know how children can become an active
> partner in a conversation by analyzing children's spontaneous language
> samples,what project can I take?Could you please give me some
> suggestion?Thanks so much.
> -- 
> Elly
> East China Normal University
> 
> >


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