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    Children learn the foundational skills of language like sounds and words at an early age, but true conversation requires more advanced abilities. While computers can generate correct sentences, engaging in natural conversation remains a challenge as it involves skills like small talk, storytelling, and discourse. Children begin developing these complex conversation skills through face-to-face interactions where they learn turn-taking, expressing intentions clearly, providing relevant information to listeners, and responding appropriately to the conversational cues of others.

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    Children learn the foundational skills of language like sounds and words at an early age, but true conversation requires more advanced abilities. While computers can generate correct sentences, engaging in natural conversation remains a challenge as it involves skills like small talk, storytelling, and discourse. Children begin developing these complex conversation skills through face-to-face interactions where they learn turn-taking, expressing intentions clearly, providing relevant information to listeners, and responding appropriately to the conversational cues of others.

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    The Development of Conversational and Discourse Skills

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    Children learn the foundational skills of language like sounds and words at an early age, but true conversation requires more advanced abilities. While computers can generate correct sentences, engaging in natural conversation remains a challenge as it involves skills like small talk, storytelling, and discourse. Children begin developing these complex conversation skills through face-to-face interactions where they learn turn-taking, expressing intentions clearly, providing relevant information to listeners, and responding appropriately to the conversational cues of others.

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    THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONVERSATIONAL AND DISCOURSE SKILLS

    It is very remarkable that much research for a long time has been interested on
    trying to understand how children learn the sounds, words and syntax that are
    necessary to perform sentences in their mother tongue, even though little of the
    language that is produced confines to the sentence level.
    Computer programs able to produce correct sentences have been performed, but
    the fact of making a program that is able to perform an unstructured conversation
    with a native speaker, it is still a challenge because computers do not have the
    skills that human beings possess to engage a small talk, relate an anecdote, tell a
    joke, explain procedures, etcetera. The question is: How do children come to
    dominate those skills?.
    Face- to- face conversation is the first sort of extended discourse in which children
    get engaged. The demands of conversation are: control over turn- taking, learn
    how to express their intents, provide the right amount of information to their
    listeners, respond appropriately and build on the conversational move of their
    partners, and repair conversation problems when necessary.

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