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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Has anyone counted, even in rough ballpark terms, how
many different kinds of modifications have been observed in Child Directed
Speech? I have in mind the full gamut of features that characterise this
register (including changes to phonology, lexis, grammar and pragmatics).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have the vaguest recollection that Roger Brown noted
somewhere that parents make more than 100 different kinds of modifications when
adapting their speech for children, but this may just be some strange fantasy
of my own concoction.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any help people can offer with relevant references
(real, not imaginary!) would be very gratefully received.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Matthew Saxton</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=4578&4578_0=10248">http://ioewebserver.ioe.ac.uk/ioe/cms/get.asp?cid=4578&4578_0=10248</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt'>*********************************************************************</span></font><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>Matthew Saxton</span></font></st1:PersonName><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> MA, MSc, DPhil</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font size=2
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'>School</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Psychology</st1:PlaceName></span></font></st1:place><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'> and Human Development,</span></font><span
lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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