Categorical Recurrence Analysis of Child Language
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چکیده
Coordination between conversation partners occurs at multiple levels, including choice of syntactic structure. A number of outstanding questions concerning the origin of this coordination require novel analytic techniques. Here we introduce and adapt a widely applied dynamical analysis, recurrence analysis. We use this method to explore lexical and syntactic coordination between children and caregivers in conversation. Results indicate that children and caregivers coordinate sequences of syntactic classes, and that this coordination diminishes over development.
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