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Publication details [#2889]

Durkin, Kevin, D.R. Rutter and Hilarie Tucker. 1982. Social interaction and language acquisition: Motherese help you? First Language 3 : 107–120.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | baby talk | input language | proper name, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

The paper investigates, in a cross-sectional observational study of mother-infant interactions, the frequency and functions of the (deviant) use of proper names in the language input.