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Publication details [#36560]

Toda, Sueko, Alan Fogel and Masatoshi Kawai. 1990. Maternal speech to three-month-old infants in the United States and Japan. Journal of Child Language 17 (2) : 279–294.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

baby talk | crosslinguistic perspective | form | function | language and culture

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study compares American and Japanese mothers' baby talk to their three-month-old infants by syntactic form and function. The identified differences seem to reflect culture-specific communicative styles and beliefs regarding childrearing.