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All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru
(An Autonomous institute Under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.)

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Talking to children : language input and acquisition : papers from a conference sponsored by the Committee on Sociolinguistics of the Social Science Research Council (USA) / edited by Catherine E. Snow, Charles A. Ferguson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.Description: x, 369 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0521213185 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401.930 83 SNO F
LOC classification:
  • P118 .T3
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Contents:
Preface Catherine E. Snow and Charles A. Ferguson; Part I. Maternal Speech Styles: 1. Mothers' speech research: from input to interaction Catherine E. Snow; 2. The adaptive significance of linguistic input to prelinguistic infants Jacqueline Sachs; 3. Some prosodic and paralinguistic features of speech to young children Olga K. Garnica; 4. Some interactional aspects of language acquisition Ton van der Geest; 5. Mother, I'd rather do it myself: some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style Elissa L. Newport, Henry Gleitman and Lila R. Gleitman; 6. Mothers' speech adjustments: the contribution of selected child listener variables Toni G. Cross; 7. Beyond syntax: the influence of conversational constraints on speech modifications Marilyn Shatz and Rochel Gelman; 8. Talking to children: some notes on feedback Jen Berko Gleason; Part II. Baby-Talk Registers and Cross-Cultural Perspectives: 9. Baby talk as a simplified register Charles A. Ferguson; 10. Modifications of speech addressed to young children in Latvian Velta Ruke-Dravina; 11. The derivational processes relating Berber nursery words to their counterparts in normal inter-adult speech Jim Bynon; 12. Participant deixis in English and baby talk Dorothy Davis Wills; 13. Ethnography and caretaker-child interaction Ben G. Blount; 14. Aspects of social environment and first language acquisition in rural Africa Sara Harkness; Part III: 15. A sociologist's point of view Allen D. Grimshaw; 16. A psychologist's point of view Susan Ervin-Tripp; References; Annotated bibliography Elaine S. Andersen.
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Preface Catherine E. Snow and Charles A. Ferguson; Part I. Maternal Speech Styles: 1. Mothers' speech research: from input to interaction Catherine E. Snow; 2. The adaptive significance of linguistic input to prelinguistic infants Jacqueline Sachs; 3. Some prosodic and paralinguistic features of speech to young children Olga K. Garnica; 4. Some interactional aspects of language acquisition Ton van der Geest; 5. Mother, I'd rather do it myself: some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style Elissa L. Newport, Henry Gleitman and Lila R. Gleitman; 6. Mothers' speech adjustments: the contribution of selected child listener variables Toni G. Cross; 7. Beyond syntax: the influence of conversational constraints on speech modifications Marilyn Shatz and Rochel Gelman; 8. Talking to children: some notes on feedback Jen Berko Gleason; Part II. Baby-Talk Registers and Cross-Cultural Perspectives: 9. Baby talk as a simplified register Charles A. Ferguson; 10. Modifications of speech addressed to young children in Latvian Velta Ruke-Dravina; 11. The derivational processes relating Berber nursery words to their counterparts in normal inter-adult speech Jim Bynon; 12. Participant deixis in English and baby talk Dorothy Davis Wills; 13. Ethnography and caretaker-child interaction Ben G. Blount; 14. Aspects of social environment and first language acquisition in rural Africa Sara Harkness; Part III: 15. A sociologist's point of view Allen D. Grimshaw; 16. A psychologist's point of view Susan Ervin-Tripp; References; Annotated bibliography Elaine S. Andersen.

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