Publications

Publication details [#2798]

Drachman, Gaberell. 1976. Baby talk in Greek. In Pohl, Heinz Dieter and Nikolai Salnikow, eds. Opuscula slavica et linguistica: Festschrift für Alexander Issatschenko. J. Heyn. pp. 103–121.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

baby talk | pidgin

Language as a subject

Annotation

It is argued that, as a kind of pidgin, baby talk may retard the normal acquisition of the adult language if the child is taught this pidgin.