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Maternal Self-Repetition and the Child's Acquisition of Language. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, No. 13.

Newport, Elissa L.; Gleitman, Henry – 1977

This article hypothesizes that language repetition of young children (in the sense used by Kobashigawa and Snow) does not help language acquisition. The evidence comes from the results of a prior study in which no indication was found that mothers who repeat themselves a great deal have children who acquire language more quickly. However,…

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension