Publications

Publication details [#36541]

Rabain-Jamin, Jacqueline and Emilie Sabeau-Jouannet. 1989. Playing with pronouns in French maternal speech to prelingual infants. Journal of Child Language 16 (2) : 217–238.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

baby talk | motherese | pronoun | role-and-reference grammar

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explores the different linguistic ways by which mothers define both their own and their baby's positions in their communicative interactions, and how they thus organize role construction and differentiation.