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Past Tense in L1 Acquisition: Elicitation Strategies and Gestures
 Svobodová, Aneta ; Cilibrasi, Luca (advisor) ; Gráf, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to observe how children (age 2;5-3;9) use past tenses in spontaneous communication with their caregivers. Video recordings from the Tommerdahl corpus, available in the CHILDES database, are used for the analysis; the recordings comprise parent-child interactions in which the parent is instructed to initiate a conversation that would prompt the child to use past tense verb forms. Strategies parents use for this purpose are observed in this thesis, as well as their impact on children's use of past tenses. The thesis also observes whether parents and/or children use any gestures that might be associated with past tense production. The theoretical part of the thesis provides an overview of the language acquisition process in the first three years of life based on the usage-based approach, especially focusing on verb acquisition, past tense acquisition and gesture use in the language acquisition process. Human conceptualization of time is discussed as a possible link between past tenses and gestures associated with them. The analysis identifies three main strategies parents used to elicit past tenses in the analysed material: talking about past happening that the child participated in, talking about past happenings that the child did not participate in, and talking about what...
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