references on motherese

[Katie Alcock]

here you go.

I have not read any of these (having only collected them since
yesterday!) - so no responsibility will be taken by the management
for the relevance or otherwise of these references.

However a couple of people have said that the more usual term
currently is "child directed speech".  I think I was trying to draw a
distinction between motherese - having especially prosodic, but
also grammatical and semantic features that are distinct from
normal adult conversation and also being directed at babies - and
any speech directed at children.  It is possible to have the latter in
a society without it being the former - but it is also possible not to
have the latter in a society.  It is difficult to see how you could have
motherese characteristics of speech without having it be child-
directed but I'm sure if we used our imaginations a bit we could
come up with a scenario!

Katie

                             References

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