title: Talking About Writing: What We Can Learn from Conversations between Parents and Their Young Children.
abstract: In six analyses using CHILDES (MacWhinney, 2000), we explored whether and how parents and their 1.5 to 5-year-old children talk about writing. Parent speech might include information about the similarity between print and speech and about the difference between writing and drawing. Parents could convey similarity between print and speech by using the words say, name, and word to refer to both spoken and written language. Parents could differentiate writing and drawing by making syntactic and semantic distinctions in their discussion of the two symbol systems. Our results indicate that parent speech includes these types of information. However, young children themselves sometimes confuse writing and drawing in their speech.
authors.affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Robins
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Treiman
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