| Description |
x, 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Roger Brown -- Part I. Maternal speech styles -- Mothers' speech research : from input to interaction / Catherine E. Snow -- The adaptive significance of linguistic input to prelinguistic infants / Jacqueline Sachs -- Some prosodic and paralinguistic features of speech to young children / Olga K. Garnica -- Some interactional aspects of language acquisition / Ton van der Geest -- Mother, I'd rather do it myself : some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style / Elissa L. Newport, Henry Gleitman, Lila R. Gleitman -- Mothers' speech adjustments : the contribution of selected child listener variables / Toni G. Cross -- Beyond syntax : the influence of conversational constraints on speech modifications / Marilyn Shatz and Rochel Gelman -- Talking to children : some notes on feedback / Jean Berko Gleason -- Part II. Baby-talk registers and cross-cultural perspectives -- Baby talk as a simplified register / Charles A. Ferguson -- Modifications of speech addressed to young children in Latvian / Velta Ruke-Dravina -- The derivational processes relating Berber nursery words to their counterparts in normal inter-adult speech / Jim Bynon -- Participant deixis in English and baby talk / Dorothy Davis Wills -- Ethnography and caretaker-child interaction / Ben G. Blount -- Aspects of social environment and first language acquisition in rural Africa / Sara Harkness -- Part III. -- A sociolgist's point of view / Allen D. Grimshaw -- A psychologist's point of view / Susan Ervin-Tripp |
| Analysis |
Children Language skills Acquisition |
| Notes |
'... conference, entitled Language Input and Acquisition, was held 6-8 September 1974 at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts ...' - Preface |
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Originally published: 1977 |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 341-369 |
| Subject |
Children -- Language -- Congresses.
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Language acquisition -- Congresses.
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Language acquisition.
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Mother and child -- Congresses.
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Mother and child.
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Psycholinguistics -- Congresses.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Sociolinguistics -- Congresses.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Language Development.
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Mother-Child Relations.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Verbal Learning.
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| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Ferguson, Charles A. (Charles Albert), 1921-1998.
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Snow, Catherine E.
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Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Sociolinguistics.
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| LC no. |
76011094 |
| ISBN |
0521213185 |
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0521295130 (paperback) |
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