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Publication details [#36937]

Street, Richard L. Jr. and Joseph N. Cappella. 1989. Social and linguistic factors influencing adaptation in children's speech. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 18 (5) : 497–519.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | child language | linguistic competence | social interaction

Place, Publisher

Plenum Press

ISBN

0090-6905

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This study concludes that particular linguistic and social abilities are useful in explaining the individual differences in the degree and type of adaptation of children's speech to their adult partners' speech.