Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. introduction Language acquisition in interaction 1
6. Part 1. The social and interactional nature of language input (five papers)
7. Conversational input to bilingual children 13
8. Social environments shape children’s language experiences, strengthening language processing and building vocabulary 29
9. The interactional context of language learning in Tzeltal 51
10. Conversation and language acquisition 83
11. Taking the floor on time 101
12. Part 2. The role of paralinguistic information in language learning (three papers)
13. Temporal synchrony in early multi-modal communication 117
14. Shared attention, gaze and pointing gestures in hearing and deaf children 139
15. How gesture helps children learn language 157
16. Part 3. Pragmatic forces in language learning (six papers)
17. Referential pacts in child language development 175
18. “We call it as puppy” 191
19. Learning words through probabilistic inferences about speakers’ communicative intentions 207
20. Word order as a structural cue and word reordering as an interactional process in early language acquisition 231
21. The discourse basis of the Korean copula construction in acquisition 251
22. Emergent clause-combining in adult-child interactional contexts 281
23. Part 4. Interactional effects on language structure and use (three papers)
24. Analytic and holistic processing in the development of constructions 303
25. From speech with others to speech for self 315
26. How to talk with children 333
27. Index 353