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SUMMARY:How children break into language and become interesting talkers wi
 thin 3 years.  - Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield)
DTSTART:20170608T153000Z
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CONTACT:Giulia Bovolenta
DESCRIPTION:Within the first year of life\, infants demonstrate the abilit
 y to communicate with others using gesture and vocalisations. Soon after t
 hey break into conventional language and begin to use words. Having done s
 o they begin to engage in proto-conversations that others naturally find i
 nteresting.  The preschool years then form a period of forming and testing
  out expectations about how language works as a tool for facilitating the 
 conversations they wish to have. By drawing on longitudinal studies of ind
 ividual differences\, corpus-based experiments and a randomized controlled
  trial\, I will discuss how children make these qualitative leaps forward 
 in language development and why a social gradient in language ability emer
 ges around 18 months.
LOCATION:Room B3\, Institute of Criminology\, Sidgwick Site
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