infant-directed child speech

[Yuriko Oshima-Takane]

Hi Margaret,

Here are a couple of articles describing older sibling's speech to the child
in mother-child-older sibling triadic interactions. Older siblings' age
ranged from 3 to 6.

Oshima-Takane, Y., Goodz, E., & Derevensky, J.L. (1996). Birth order effects
on early language development: Do secondborn children learn from overheard
speech? Child Development, 67, 621-634.

Oshima-Takane, Y., & Robbins, M. (2003). Linguistic environment of
secondborn children. First Language, 23, 21-40.

Yuriko Oshima-Takane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Fleck" <mfleck at cs.uiuc.edu>
To: "Nan Ratner" <nratner at hesp.umd.edu>
Cc: <macw at mac.com>; <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>; <gwells at ucsc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: infant-directed child speech


>
> Oh, ouch.   My initial question seems to have been easy to misread.   Let
> me rephrase a bit.
>
> I've seen a lot of discussion about what adults say to infants, but very
> little about what children (e.g. older siblings, playmates of older
> siblings) say to infants.   Casual observation suggests that they don't
> adopt motherese and, indeed, seem to do some things that adults don't,
> such as waving a ball in front of the infant saying "Look David, this is
> a BALL."   But that's just a few casual observations and I was curious
> about what's known.
>
> This question is probably more interesting when the children are old
enough
> to talk well (e.g. 3 and up).
>
> ???
>
> Margaret
>
>