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In return: points well taken. I've been using CDS (child-directed
speech) for the register you describe. This is compact and doesn't
differentiate between<br>
types of speakers directing speech to the child. But one would have
to add specifications of the characteristics that make CDS a register,
since not all<br>
people who speak to children use the register, or all of its
characteristics (still not fully specified). (CDS also has the
convenience of standing for<br>
Child-Directed Sign in studies of deaf children.)<br><br>
Dan Slobin<br><br>
At 11:10 AM 12/4/2006, Bruno Estigarribia wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Points well taken. It still
seems to me we are missing something here. Clearly, "exposure
language" or "ambient language" encompasses adult-to-child
speech, peer-to-peer (child or adult) interactions, as well as, well, TV,
etc. But we sometimes want to talk about particular properties of
particular registers, and therefore the terms we've been discussing ARE
useful. "Exposure language" is not a particular, homogeneous,
linguistic register, whereas motherese/caregiverese/parentese and
child/infant-direct speech may well be specific registers, at least in
some communities.<br>
BTW, I trace the important distinction "input" vs.
"intake" back to Corder 1967 "The Significance of
Learner's Errors", International Review of Applied Linguistics in
Language Teaching, vol 4, p. 165.<br><br>
Bruno Estigarribia<br>
Ph.D. candidate<br>
Stanford Linguistics<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I've started to use the term
"exposure language," for several reasons:<br><br>
* "input" assumes that the child takes
everything in<br>
* "motherese" and "caregiver talk"
exclude talk from non-parents<br>
and non-caregivers (siblings, peers, other
adults, etc.)<br>
* "child directed speech" excludes what
children learn from<br>
overheard speech<br>
* "baby talk" is ambiguous: could mean talk
produced by or for babies<br><br>
"Exposure language" or "ambient language" allow one
to consider characteristics of talk that children are exposed to or
surrounded by,<br>
without prejudging any of the issues mentioned above.<br><br>
Dan Slobin<br><br>
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At 02:08 AM 12/4/2006, Matthew Saxton wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dear All,<br><br>
Could anyone please help me trace the provenance of the terms we have for
how adults talk to young children? I’m thinking in particular of
/motherese/, /baby talk/, /Child Directed Speech /and/ caregiver talk./
(If I’ve missed any obvious ones, do please let me know this
also).<br><br>
My guess for /baby talk/ is Charles Ferguson around 1971, though a
specific reference would be helpful. The earliest use of /motherese/ I
can trace is:<br><br>
Vorster, J. (1975). Mommy linguist the case for motherese. /Lingua,
37/4,/ 281-312.<br><br>
Catherine Snow does not seem to use the term /motherese/ in her 1972
article, but I would imagine there is an earlier source than Vorster
(1975) (given Vorster’s acknowledgement of Snow).<br><br>
For /Child Directed Speech/ (with a hyphen), I go back as far
as:<br><br>
Warren-Leubecker, A. & Bohannon, J.N. (1984). Intonation patterns in
child-directed speech mother-father differences. /Child Development,
55/4,/ 1379-1385.<br><br>
As for /caregiver talk/, this phrase throws up precisely no references in
a standard search. Julian Pine talks about “the language of primary
caregivers” in 1995, but that’s not quite the same thing:<br><br>
Pine, J. (1995). The language of primary caregivers. In C. Gallaway &
B.J. Richards (eds.) /Input and interaction in language acquisition/.
Cambridge: C.U.P..<br><br>
Maybe no-one has actually used the phrase /caregiver talk/ and I should
strike it from the record. In any event, any help tracing these terms
back to their various sources would be very much appreciated.<br><br>
Regards,<br><br>
Matthew Saxton.<br><br>
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