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Common Sources of Miscommunication with Children
Children and adults actually speak a different language, even when the child grows up in a monolingual (English-only) environment. Communicating effectively with children, who are still in the process of acquiring language, vocabulary, and understanding of conversational norms and nuances, can be complicated. This talk explores some of the most common sources of miscommunication, including non-elaboration, semantic vs applied understanding of many terms, difficulties with negatives, under-inclusivity in category terms, grain-size ambiguities, passive/active voice confusion, anaphora and ellipsis, and indexical/relative terms.