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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Dear
All,</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="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>
motherese</i>,<i> baby talk</i>,<i> Child Directed Speech</i> and<i>
caregiver talk.</i> (If I've missed any obvious ones, do please let
me know this also).</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">My guess for<i> baby
talk</i> is Charles Ferguson around 1971, though a specific reference
would be helpful. The earliest use of<i> motherese</i> I can trace
is:</font></blockquote>
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<div>Ferguson's work on this goes back quite a bit earlier:</div>
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<div>Ferguson, C. A. (1956). Arabic baby talk. In M. Halle et al.,
eds.,<i> For Roman Jakobson.</i> The Hague: Mouton.</div>
<div>Ferguson, C. A. (1964). Baby talk in six languages.<i> American
Anthrolpologist, 66,</i> 103-114.</div>
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<div>In the 1964 paper, of which I have a reprint, I find only one
earlier paper cited that uses a term for CDS:</div>
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<div>Casagrande, J. B. (1948). Comanche baby language. <i> Intl J
of Amer. Ling., 14,</i> 11-14.</div>
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<div>Hope that's helpful!</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>-marilyn</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Vorster, J. (1975).
Mommy linguist - the case for motherese.<i> Lingua, 37/4,</i>
281-312.</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Catherine Snow does
not seem to use the term<i> motherese</i> in her 1972 article, but I
would imagine there is an earlier source than Vorster (1975) (given
Vorster's acknowledgement of Snow).</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">For<i> Child Directed
Speech</i> (with a hyphen), I go back as far
as:</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Warren-Leubecker, A. &
Bohannon, J.N. (1984). Intonation patterns in child-directed speech -
mother-father differences.<i> Child Development, 55/4,</i>
1379-1385.</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">As for<i> caregiver
talk</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:</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Pine, J. (1995). The
language of primary caregivers. In C. Gallaway & B.J. Richards
(eds.)<i> Input and interaction in language acquisition</i>.
Cambridge: C.U.P..</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Maybe no-one has
actually used the phrase<i> caregiver talk</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.</font></blockquote>
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face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Arial">Regards,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Arial"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Matthew
Saxton.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Matthew Saxton MA,
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