Through daily exposure to the surrounding input structured in conversations, children's
language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions that contain multiple cross …

Despite the fact that in most communities interaction occurs between the child and multiple
speakers, most previous research on input to children focused on input from mothers. We …

Through constant exposure to adult input, in dialogue, children's language gradually
develops into rich linguistic constructions that contain multiple cross-modal elements subtly …

Previous research on first language acquisition has highlighted the relation between
actions, gestures and speech to express negation. As discussed by Watson (1925) and …

In this study, we address the map** problem for modal words: how do children learn the
form‐to‐meaning map**s for words like could or have to in their input languages …

Children and praise is an under-researched area that is addressed in this study, which
explores in detail praise sequences in parent-child interaction in French family life (45 h; …

This paper presents a multimodal and form-based approach to language development
grounded in situated practices and focuses on the longitudinal analysis of a composite …

In order to understand how children learn to recognize and use humor in their own cultural
environment, we have chosen to study their production in two different languages and …

This article analyses the development of a composite communicative posture, the shrug
(which can combine palm-up flips, lifted shoulders and a head tilt), in a video corpus of …

The research presented in this thesis deals with so-called “disfluency” phenomena, a topic
of study traditionally concerned with the annotation of a priori “disfluent” forms, such as “uh” …