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Publication details [#32295]

Newman, Rochelle S., Tammy L. Weppelman, Angela Bostow, Ryan Schiffer and Evelyn Elbert-Perez. 2003. Children's use of the prosodic characteristics of infant-directed speech. Language & Communication 23 (1) : 63–80.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | gender | language use | prosody

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0271-5309

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

This study investigates children's use of the prosodic characteristics of infant-directed speech when addressing a younger sibling as compared to their language use when addressing adults.