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Varieties of Speech to Young Children |
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Janellen Huttenlocher - University of Chicago
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2005 |
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Invited Speaker |
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This talk concerns the speech used by caregivers in addressing young
children. We obtain several measures of caregiver speech during
children's early language development (14 to 30 months). For all
measures, we find substantial variation among different individuals and
subgroups. Speech patterns vary with the educational level of
caregivers, and these differences are maintained over time. While
there are distinct levels of complexity for different caregivers, there
is a common pattern of increase across age within the range that
characterizes each educational group. Thus caregiver speech exhibits
both long-standing patterns of linguistic behavior and adjustment for
the interlocutor. We suggest that the wide variability of speech by
individual caregivers should be incorporated into any framework used to
investigate the role of input in language acquisition.
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