Infant-directed child speech

[Mary Erbaugh]

Margaret,

Have a look at the chapters in:

Patricia Goldring Zuckow, ed.  1989.  Sibling Interaction across
Cultures:  Theoretical and Methodological Issues.
NY:  Springer-Verlag.

See also Bambi B. Schieffelin and Elinor Ochs, eds.  1986.  Language
Socialization across Cultures.  Cambridge.  Cambridge University Press.

For broader perspective on these issues, which are deeply embedded not only
with culture, but also with family size, subsistence, and divisions of
labor, see:

Barbara Rogoff.  2003.  The Cultural Nature of Human
Development.  NY:  Oxford University Press.

For a more biological view, including many cross-species comparisons of
mothering and 'co-mothering' by grandmothers, aunts, and sibs, see:

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.  1999.   Mother Nature:  Natural Selection and the
Female of the Species.   NY.  Random House.


Mary Erbaugh

Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
University of Oregon