Modelling and feedback in the context of early questions

Johannes Heim; Maryam Bala; Arabella Sinclair

doi:10.31234/osf.io/a48v6_v1

Modelling and feedback in the context of early questions

Johannes Heim^*
, Maryam Bala
, Arabella Sinclair

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Aberdeen

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Abstract

Caregivers adapt the positive feedback they provide to children as children develop their linguistic competency. We focus on caregiver interventions concerning question-answer sequences: specifically identifying the pragmatic properties of asking and answering questions. We propose four distinct types of caregiver intervention strategy which steer child learning of adult-like question answer behaviour. This positive feedback can be subconscious, and concern modelling or exemplifying; or more deliberate, consisting of implicit correction or affirmation of child attempts. In line with our hypotheses, our results suggest that the onset and incidence of these intervention categories do indeed vary with child development.

Original language	English
Publisher	PsyArXiv Preprints
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/a48v6_v1
Publication status	Published - 27 Mar 2025

Bibliographical note

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of our 2024 abstract for the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (LAGB2024)conference where this work was submitted and the members of the audience at the LAGB 2024 conference, where Maryam and Johannes presented the outcome of this preliminary work “Exploring caregiver intervention on early question-answer sequences” for their thoughtful comments and suggestions. We would also like to thank Elspeth Edelstein for her useful feedback on the distinctions between feedback categories

Keywords

Computational Linguistics
First and Second Language Acquisition
Linguistics
Social and Behavioral Sciences

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