{"pk":49136,"title":"Naturalistic observation of language development outside the home","subtitle":null,"abstract":"How do children learn to talk to others? Mastery of language means being able to communicate with a wide array of interlocutors (Schieffelin & Ochs, 1986). Yet researchers have tended to treat parent-child interaction as the paradigmatic site of language learning, neglecting how children learn to use language with other people in their lives. As a result, we have come to not only lack basic facts about the full distribution of children's language input and use; we miss precisely those contexts that call for complex conversational skills, such as adapting to novel interlocutors and maintaining conversations without parent scaffolding.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Symposia","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0xd3r8t8","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Claire","middle_name":"Augusta","last_name":"Bergey","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""},{"first_name":"Marisa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Casillas","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"","last_name":"Messinger","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Miami","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"Z.","last_name":"Sparks","name_suffix":"","institution":"Stanford University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49136/galley/37097/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49136/galley/38642/download/"}]}