TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article discusses the importance of social interaction for the development of the representations for symbolic communication. We suggest that there is no need to distinguish between different representational systems emerging at different stages of development. Instead, we propose that representations are rich right from the beginning of a child's life, and that they are driven mainly by acting and interacting in the physical and social world. The more variety in a child's interactional experience (i.e., synchrony, sequentiality, and prediction), the more enriched and abstracted the representations become. We review literature providing evidence for the ways in which infants' development toward symbolic communication benefits from repeated social (inter) action and consider some implications for computational approaches.
DA  - 2016
DO  - 10.1075/is.17.1.06nom
KW  - rich representation
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - interaction
KW  - synchrony
KW  - contingency
KW  - sequentiality
LA  - eng
IS  - 1
M2  - 128
PY  - 2016
SN  - 1572-0373
SP  - 128-153
T2  - INTERACTION STUDIES
TI  - Language-at all times Action and interaction as contexts for enriching representations
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29074553
Y2  - 2024-11-25T06:10:59
ER  -