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Publication details [#1916]
Bynon, James. 1977. The derivational processes relating Berber nursery words to their counterparts in normal inter-adult speech. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 255–269.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
Analysis of the structural relationship between inter-adult speech forms and their baby talk counterparts. The question is asked what support this analysis lends to widely-held beliefs that the function of baby talk is that of helping children to learn to speak.