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Peer reviewedMervis, Carolyn B.; Mervis, Cynthia A. – Child Development, 1982
Tests the hypothesis that mothers would label objects with adult-basic level terms when talking to other adults, but would label the same objects with child-basic terms when speaking to their young children who were just starting to talk, even though these labels may be very much "incorrect" by adult standards. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
