[Linganth] Is "motherese" universal?

[Robert Lawless]

I guess this answers my question.

At 01:28 PM 12/31/2004, Paul B. Garrett wrote:
>Unadulterated pap.  (If anyone requires scholarly references for the
>preceding statement, feel free to contact me off list.)
>
>Or to be more charitable: the person cited would seem to be utterly
>unfamiliar with conclusions reached by her colleagues in linguistic
>anthropology--based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and data
>collection, not speculation--over the last quarter-century or so.