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Publication details [#2437]

Cross, Toni G. 1975. Motherese: Its association with rate of syntactic acquisition in young children. Pragmatics Microfiche 1 (5) : B1–B1.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

baby talk | early childhood | intention | syntax1, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

It is suggested that it is the closeness of the semantic relationship between the child's and the mother's utterances that facilitates the child's discovery of the appropriate linguistic expressions for his semantic intention (especially when mothers expand and semantically extend their children's utterances).