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  • Title: Speech overlap in Japanese mother-child conversations.
    Author: Kajikawa S, Amano S, Kondo T.
    Journal: J Child Lang; 2004 Feb; 31(1):215-30. PubMed ID: 15053091.
    Abstract:
    This study aimed to clarify the development of conversational style in Japanese mother-child interactions. We focused on the frequency of speech overlap as an index of Japanese conversational style, with particular attention to ne, a particle produced by the speaker, and to backchannels, such as 'uh-huh', produced by the listener that support sympathetic conversation. The results of longitudinal observations of two Japanese mother-child dyads from approximately 0;11 to 3;3 suggest that an adultlike conversational style with frequent overlaps emerges in Japanese child-directed speech around the two-word utterance period, and a child's development of ne use is closely related to this shift.
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