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Blount, Ben G. 1977. Ethnography and caretaker-child interaction. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 297–308.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | ethnography | input language | socialization

Annotation

B. reviews recent studies of caretaker speech, its linguistic and interactional characteristics, and its relationships to language acquisition (viewed from the perspective of language socialization practices).