Development of minimum communications circuits from seven basic speech acts

What is assessed with ICRA-A battery?

Seven initial speech acts, that is to say, of early appearance in first childhood (between 2 and 2 and a half years-old) (Abraham & Brenca, 2013, 2014, 2016):
• Asserting
• Giving
• Calling
• Requesting (object)
• Requesting (information)
• Requesting (action)
• Rejecting

Each speech act is made up of variables of analysis grouped into:
Paralinguistic manifestations:body orientation, visual contact, intonation and voice volume.
Pre-linguistic manifestations: record of nonverbal manifestations of the communicative intent typical of each speech act assessed. Analyzed with a progression criterion, it provides with a parameter of how far o how close the child is from achieving the production of the speech act we are evaluating.
Linguistic production: : documentation of the minimum verbal production to transmit the communicative intent typical of each speech act assessed.
Coherence with communicative situation: both in verbal and gestural expression.

Each of these elements recorded are, within the ICRA Method, PRAGMATIC FEATURES of speech acts, just like phonetic features of phonemes and semantic features of lexemes. Within these PRAGMATIC FEATURES, some are shared and others are typical and distinctive of each speech act.