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Penelope Brown
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 98
Citations - 25772
Penelope Brown is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politeness & Verb. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 97 publications receiving 24781 citations. Previous affiliations of Penelope Brown include University of California, Berkeley & Australian National University.
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Early language experience in a Papuan community.
TL;DR: This work investigates the daylong language environments of children on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea, a small-scale traditional community where prior ethnographic study demonstrated contingency-seeking child interaction styles and finds children were infrequently directly addressed and linguistic input rate was primarily affected by situational factors.
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Questions and their responses in Tzeltal
TL;DR: This paper reported the results of a study of Tzeltal questions and their responses, based on a collection of 419 question/response sequences drawn from video recordings of'maximally casual' naturally occurring face-to-face interactions in a Tzaltal (Mayan) community.
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Epistemic dimensions of polar questions: Sentence-final particles in comparative perspective
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Sequence organization. A universal infrastructure for social action
Kobin H. Kendrick,Penelope Brown,Mark Dingemanse,Simeon Floyd,Sonja Gipper,Kaoru Hayano,Elliott Hoey,Gertie Hoymann,Elizabeth Manrique,Giovanni Rossi,Stephen C. Levinson +10 more
TL;DR: The case for the universality of the sequence organization observable in informal human conversational interaction is made using the descriptive schema developed by Schegloff (2007), which finds that these patterns are instantiated in very similar ways for the most part right down to the types of different action sequences.