Generating a recast

Clarke et. al. discuss that "in the adult–child interaction, the adult generates a recast when he or she "....expands, deletes, permutes, or otherwise changes the [child’s utterance] while maintaining significant overlap in meaning". Sometimes, recasts provide a corrective contrast with the child’s immediately prior turn through the provision of an enhanced version of the child’s ill-formed utterance, as in the example below reproduced from Saxton."

    "Child: It might get loosed down the plughole
    Adult: Lost down the plughole?"

"Equally, some recasts give no clear-cut correction but still offer potential for facilitation of acquisition by providing a structural contrast with an errorless sentence produced by the child as in the following constructed extract, which illustrates an adult expanding the child’s utterance into one that is more complex":

   "Child: That's a big horse. 
   Adult: Yep, that's a big horse with lots of black spots."

"Sometimes, recasts may introduce multiple changes, as in the following example,whereby the adult both expands on and corrects components of the child’s utterance:"

   "Child: Why does he that? 
   Adult: Mmm, I am not sure why he does that."