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Publication details [#3127]
Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. 1977. A psychologist's point of view. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 335–339.
Annotation
Brief discussion of different approaches to baby talk treating it (i) as the input to an infant acquiring language, (ii) as a register within the repertoire of those who speak to children, and (iii) as accomodative language.