A Rose By Any other Name - one more source

Thu Dec 7 18:39:37 UTC 2006

In his 1941 monograph Kindersprache, Aphasie und allegemeine  
Lautgesetze (English translation published in 1968), Roman Jakobson  
noted that  "one talks in child fashion to the child  ... We even  
have at our disposal for this purpose a traditional mixed language  
adapted to the linguistic ability of the child, which is known by the  
term "nursery language"."

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Carol Stoel-Gammon, Ph.D.
Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences
University of Washington
1417 N.E. 42nd Street
Seattle, WA 98105-6246

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On Dec 6, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Matthew Saxton wrote:

  Dear All,
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> Talking to Children: Origins of Terminology
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> Many, many thanks to all those who took the time and trouble to  
> help track down the origins of these stalwart terms from the child  
> language canon. I have tried to distil the essential sources in  
> what follows, but Buyer Beware! I do not present this as a  
> definitive list (I still need to do some more old-fashioned  
> shuffling round real - not virtual - libraries).
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> The discussion extended rather quickly beyond my original question,  
> which simply concerned the provenance of terms. In particular, the  
> appropriateness of different terms with regard to their precision  
> and relevance was, quite rightly, raised as a key issue. For what  
> it’s worth, and without going into detail, I think Child Directed  
> Speech (CDS) covers most of the bases required by child language  
> researchers. And it certainly seems to have the upper hand as the  
> most popular term in recent times.
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> (1)        Baby Talk
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> The granddaddy (?!) of them all, which goes back at least to 1956  
> and almost to 1948:
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> Casagrande, J.B. (1948). Comanche baby language. International  
> Journal of American Linguistics, 14, 11-14.
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> Ferguson, C. A. (1956). Arabic baby talk. In M. Halle (Ed.), For  
> Roman Jakobson: On the occasion of his sixtieth birthday 11th  
> October 1956. The Hague: Mouton.
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> (2)        Motherese
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> Two competitors here, though InfoCHILDES correspondents clearly  
> favour Elissa Newport as the True Progenitor:
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> Newport, E.L. (1975) Motherese: The speech of mothers to young  
> children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of  
> Pennsylvania.
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> Newport, E.L. (1976). Motherese: The speech of mothers to young  
> children. In N.J. Castellan, D.B. Pisoni & G.R. Potts (Eds.),  
> Cognitive theory (Vol. 2). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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> Vorster, J. (1975). Mommy linguist – the case for motherese.  
> Lingua, 37/4, 281-312.
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> (3)        Child Directed Speech (CDS)
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> Despite some help from Neil Bohannon, I haven’t (yet) been able to  
> go further back than his own 1984 paper.
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> Warren-Leubecker, A. & Bohannon, J.N. (1984). Intonation patterns  
> in child-directed speech – mother-father differences. Child  
> Development, 55/4, 1379-1385.
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> (4)        Input Language
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> Like linguistic input and exposure language, this one is very broad  
> in scope:
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> Ninio, A. (1986). The direct mapping of function to form in  
> children’s early language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research,  
> 15, 559 (Abstract).
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> (5)        Caregiver Talk
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> Not quite caregiver talk in the references below (maybe it really  
> was a figment of my imagination), but here are two early uses of  
> caregiver:
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> Beckwith, L., Cohen, S.E., Kopp, C.B., Parmelee, A.H. & Marcy, T.G.  
> (1976). Caregiver-infant interaction and early cognitive  
> development in preterm infants. Child Development, 47/3, 579-587.
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> Cohen, S.E., Beckwith, L. & Parmelee, A.H. (1978). Receptive  
> language development in preterm children as related to caregiver- 
> child interaction. Pediatrics, 61/1, 16-20.
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> (6)        Caretaker Talk
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> As Brian Richards points out, this one was not destined to take off  
> in the U.K. (and other Anglophone countries), because caretaker  
> meansjanitor. Please note,  janitor talk has not yet been  
> recognised as a distinct register, used when talking to children,  
> but this seems like a terrible injustice to me and I shall be  
> mounting a campaign of support very soon.
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> Schachter, F.F., Fosha, D., Stemp, S., Brotman, N. & Ganger, S.  
> (1976). Everyday caretaker talk to toddlers vs. 3s and 4s. Journal  
> of Child Language, 3/2, 221-245.
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> (7)        Infant Directed Speech
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> I doubt very much this is the earliest usage, but at least it  
> provides a lead:
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> Cooper, R.P. & Aslin, R.N. (1990). Preference for infant-directed  
> speech in the first month after birth. Child Development, 61/5,  
> 1584-1595.
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> (8)        Linguistic Input
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> This one is all-encompassing. I guess it extends beyond language  
> learning and is in the same class as linguistic environment. Again,  
> I doubt if the following is the first usage of the term, but it  
> provides something to go on:
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> Schlesinger, I.M. (1977). Role of cognitive development and  
> linguistic input in language acquisition. Journal of Child  
> Language, 4/2, 153-169.
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> (9)        Exposure Language
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> Dan Slobin’s declared favourite. My initial search does not go back  
> too far, but again, I hope it provides a useful lead.
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> Gillette, J., Gleitman, H. & Gleitman, L & Lederer, A. (1999).  
> Human simulations of vocabulary learning. Cognition, 73/2, 135-176.
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> (A Few) Miscellaneous References
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> Bohannon, J., Stine, E.L. & Ritzenberg, D. (1982). Motherese: The  
> effects of feedback and experience. The Bulletin of the Psychonomic  
> Society, 19, 201-204.
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> Bohannon, J. & Warren-Leubecker, A. (1988) Recent developments in  
> child directed speech: You've come a long way, Baby-Talk. Language  
> Science, 10, 89-110.
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> Phillips, J.R. (1970).Formal characteristics of speech which  
> mothers address to their young children. Unpublished doctoral  
> dissertation, JohnsHopkins University.
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> Phillips, J.R. (1973). Syntax and vocabulary of mothers’ speech to  
> young children: Age and sex comparisons. Child Development, 44,  
> 182-185.
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> Matthew Saxton MA, MSc, DPhil
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