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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>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 <i><span style='font-style:italic'>motherese</span></i>, <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>baby talk</span></i>, <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Child Directed Speech </span></i>and<i><span style='font-style:italic'>
caregiver talk.</span></i> (If I’ve missed any obvious ones, do please
let me know this also).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>My guess for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>baby
talk</span></i> is Charles Ferguson around 1971, though a specific reference
would be helpful. The earliest use of <i><span style='font-style:italic'>motherese</span></i>
I can trace is:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vorster, J. (1975). Mommy linguist – the case for
motherese. <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Lingua, 37/4,</span></i> 281-312.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Catherine Snow does not seem to use the term <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>motherese</span></i> in her 1972 article, but I would
imagine there is an earlier source than Vorster (1975) (given Vorster’s acknowledgement
of Snow).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Child Directed
Speech</span></i> (with a hyphen), I go back as far as:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Warren-Leubecker, A. & Bohannon, J.N. (1984). Intonation
patterns in child-directed speech – mother-father differences. <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Child Development, 55/4,</span></i> 1379-1385.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>As for <i><span style='font-style:italic'>caregiver talk</span></i>,
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:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Pine, J. (1995). The language of primary caregivers. In C.
Gallaway & B.J. Richards (eds.) <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Input
and interaction in language acquisition</span></i>. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:City></st1:place>: C.U.P..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Maybe no-one has actually used the phrase <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>caregiver talk</span></i> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Matthew Saxton.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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