Publications

Publication details [#36571]

Barrett, Martyn, Margaret Harris and Joan Chasin. 1991. Early lexical development and maternal speech: A comparison of children's initial and subsequent uses of words. Journal of Child Language 18 (1) : 21–40.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | language use | motherese | word

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper compares and contrasts the role of maternal linguistic input in children's initial and subsequent word uses.