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What makes joint book reading a particular event, where a child receives a certain kind of input that is beneficial for language development? Following Krackow (2010), who reports linguistic differences in narration about experienced and imagined events, we compared two different situations that are thought to create a narrative interaction: picturebook reading and looking at photographs. The findings of Krackow (2010) led us to hypothesize that photographs of experienced events elicit a richer semantic in childdirected input than early-concept books. We conducted a pilot study with children from three different age groups: 1-, 2- and 3-year-olds. All children interacted with their mothers in a situation looking at photographs as well as in a book reading situation. We analyzed maternal child-directed input with respect to semantical richness contained in speech. Our findings do not show any differences in the form of maternal input in both groups, but they underline particular qualities that are given in each situation.
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Nachtigäller, K., Rohlfing, K.J. Einfluss von erlebten und vorgestellten Ereignissen auf die Erzählweise in kindgerichteter Sprache. Z Literaturwiss Linguistik 41, 135–150 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03379858
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