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Publication details [#1507]

Blount, Ben G. 1981. Elicitation strategies in parental speech acts. In Dale, Philip S. and David Ingram, eds. Child language - An international perspective. Selected papers from the First International Congress for the Study of Child Language. University Park Press. pp. 241–256.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | baby talk | context of L1-acquisition

Annotation

B. addresses the issue of how parents create interactional contexts for children by attracting their attention with features of speech. (Includes a brief review of the literature on 'baby talk'.)