Mommy Linguist: The Case for Motherese.

Vorster, Jan

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Mommy Linguist: The Case for Motherese

Vorster, Jan

Lingua, 37, 4, 281-312, Dec 75

This article summarizes early work on child language learning and reviews more recent work. It appears that recent research shows that children's linguistic cues, spoken by adults, are slower, less varied and more concrete than adult-adult speech. (Available from North-Holland Publishing Co., P. O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.) (CHK)

Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Learning Levels, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Parent Child Relationship, Psycholinguistics, Speech Habits, Verbal Communication

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