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Casillas, Marisa; Brown, Penelope; Levinson, Stephen C. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The rate at which young children are directly spoken to varies due to many factors, including (a) caregiver ideas about children as conversational partners and (b) the organization of everyday life. Prior work suggests cross-cultural variation in rates of child-directed speech is due to the former factor, but has been fraught with confounds in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication
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Alam, Florencia; Rosemberg, Celia Renata; Garber, Leandro; Stein, Alejandra – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The study adopts a naturalistic perspective, looking at the relationship between socio-economic status (SES), activities and variation sets in child-directed speech (CDS) to Spanish-speaking Argentinian toddlers. It aims to determine the effect of SES and type of activity on the proportion of words and utterances in variation sets and on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Status, Toddlers, Speech Communication
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Thorson, Jill C.; Morgan, James L. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Our motivation was to examine how toddler (2;6) and adult speakers of American English prosodically realize information status categories. The aims were three-fold: (1) to analyze how adults phonologically make information status distinctions; (2) to examine how these same categories are signaled in toddlers' spontaneous speech; and (3) to analyze…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Toddlers, Preferences