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Beheydt, Ludo. 1982. The deficit hypothesis and the social stratification of motherese. Grazer Linguistische Studien 16 : 7–24.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

Socialization within a dialect is to be preferred because of its greater lexico-grammatical diversity, esp. if mothers are not accustomed to a standard to which they aspire, in which case they frequently experience the seemingly situation-bound disfunctionality of the standard variety.