Mealtime Conversations Between Parents and Their 2-Year-Old Children in Five Cultural Contexts

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Authors

  • Manuel Bohn
  • Wilson Filipe da Silva Vieira
  • Marta Giner Torréns
  • Joscha Kärtner
  • Shoji Itakura
  • Lília Cavalcante
  • Daniel Haun
  • Moritz Köster
  • Patricia Kanngiesser

Children all over the world learn language, yet the contexts in which they do so vary substantially. This variation needs to be systematically quantified to build robust and generalizable theories of language acquisition. We compared communicative interactions between parents and their 2-year-old children (N =99 families) during mealtime across five cultural settings (Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Germany, and Japan) and coded the amount of talk and gestures as well as their conversational embedding (interlocutors, function, and themes). We found a comparable pattern of communicative interactions across cultural settings, which were modified in ways that are consistent with local norms and values. These results suggest that children encounter similarly structured communicative environments across diverse cultural contexts and will inform theories of language learning.

Original languageEnglish
JournalDevelopmental Psychology
Volume60
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)1255-1268
Number of pages14
ISSN0012-1649
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 07.2024

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© 2024 American Psychological Association

    Research areas

  • communication, cross-cultural psychology, gesture, language acquisition, parent–child interaction
  • Psychology

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