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    Child directed speech refers to the way adults modify their speech when talking to young children. Studies have found adults use a higher pitch, more exaggerated intonation, restrict conversation topics, and selectively use simpler words and grammatical constructions. Key features of child directed speech include expanding on what a child says by extending it into a full sentence, recasting by commenting on and rephrasing what a child said, and modifying phonology, lexis, and grammar by using shorter and clearer pronunciations, simpler vocabulary, and frequent imperatives and questions. Child directed speech helps children learn language and socialize but the way adults modify their speech varies between cultures.

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    Child directed speech refers to the way adults modify their speech when talking to young children. Studies have found adults use a higher pitch, more exaggerated intonation, restrict conversation topics, and selectively use simpler words and grammatical constructions. Key features of child directed speech include expanding on what a child says by extending it into a full sentence, recasting by commenting on and rephrasing what a child said, and modifying phonology, lexis, and grammar by using shorter and clearer pronunciations, simpler vocabulary, and frequent imperatives and questions. Child directed speech helps children learn language and socialize but the way adults modify their speech varies between cultures.

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    Child directed speech refers to the way adults modify their speech when talking to young children. Studies have found adults use a higher pitch, more exaggerated intonation, restrict conversation topics, and selectively use simpler words and grammatical constructions. Key features of child directed speech include expanding on what a child says by extending it into a full sentence, recasting by commenting on and rephrasing what a child said, and modifying phonology, lexis, and grammar by using shorter and clearer pronunciations, simpler vocabulary, and frequent imperatives and questions. Child directed speech helps children learn language and socialize but the way adults modify their speech varies between cultures.

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    C&L : LITERACY AT

    HOME - PARENTS' ROLE


    MISS PUVANA
    CHILD DIRECTED SPEECH : AN OVERVIEW

    Studies in the 1970s : the way Western middle class adults


    spoke to young children varied from the way they spoke to
    each other

    higher pitch & exaggerated intonations


    restricted range of conversational topics
    highly selective in the words and syntactic
    constructions

    Snow & Ferguson (1977)


    KEY TERMS IN CDS
    EXPANSION

    Adult repeat child's utterance by extending it into a


    complete grammatical sentences

    Example Child : I Papa go.


    Adult : I want to go to Papa.
    RECAST

    Adult comments, extends and rephrases child's utterance

    Example Child : I Papa go.


    Adult : I want to go to Papa.
    Oh, you want to go to Papa?
    FEATURES OF CDS
    PHONOLOGY LEXIS GRAMMAR

    Slower, clear Simpler, restricted Simpler


    pronunciation vocabulary construction
    More pauses Diminutive forms Frequent use of
    Higher pitch (doggie, kitty, imperatives
    Exaggerated potty) Lots of repetitions
    intonation Concrete lexis Frequent questions
    referring to objects Use of personal
    in immediate names instead of
    surroundings pronouns

    **not all cultures partake in CDS (Samoa, Papua New Guinea)


    types of cds
    MOTHERESE FATHERESE

    Exaggerated tone More demanding


    Wide range & of information
    variability of pitch More direct
    Simplified questions
    language Wider vocabulary
    Expansion &
    recasting
    FERGUSON (1977)
    Suggests that there are the main functions of Motherese :
    1. an aid to communication
    2. a language teaching aid
    3. a socialization function

    Mothers seek to communicate with their children, and this


    leads them to simplify their speech to facilitate the exchange
    of meanings.

    Mothers pay little attention to the formal correctness of their


    children's speech.
    IDENTIFICATION OF WORD AND PHRASE BOUNDARIES
    short, but mostly correct and complete utterances
    slow, with longer pauses than adult-directed speech
    high, varied pitch, exaggerated intonation and stress

    WORD LEARNING
    restricted vocabulary
    reference mostly restricted to here and now

    SENTENCE STRUCTURE AND GRAMMAR


    high proportion of imperative and questions
    more repetitions than in adult-adult speech
    das ende.
    auf wiédersehen

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