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Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. 1977. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. x + 369 pp.
Publication type
Book – edited volume
Publication language
English
Keywords
first language acquisition | input language

Articles in this volume

Brown, Roger. Introduction. 1–27
Snow, Catherine E. Mothers' speech research: From input to interaction. 31–49
Sachs, Jacqueline. The adaptive significance of linguistic input to prelinguistic infants. 51–61
Garnica, Olga K. Some prosodic and paralinguistic features of speech to young children. 63–88
Geest, Anton J.M. Van der. Some interactional aspects of language acquisition. 89–107
Newport, Elissa L., Henry Gleitman and Lila R. Gleitman. Mother, I'd rather do it myself: Some effects and non-effects of maternal speech style. 109–149
Cross, Toni G. Mothers' speech adjustments: The contributions of selected child listener variables. 151–188
Shatz, Marilyn and Rochel Gelman. Beyond syntax: The influence of conversational constraints on speech modifications. 189–198
Gleason, Jean Berko. Talking to children: Some notes on feedback. 199–205
Ferguson, Charles A. Baby talk as a simplified register. 209–235
Ruke-Dravina, Velta. Modifications of speech addressed to young children in Latvian. 237–253
Bynon, James. The derivational processes relating Berber nursery words to their counterparts in normal inter-adult speech. 255–269
Wills, Dorothy Davis. Participant deixis in English and baby talk. 271–295
Blount, Ben G. Ethnography and caretaker-child interaction. 297–308
Harkness, Sara. Aspects of environment and first language acquisition in rural Africa. 309–316
Grimshaw, Allen D. A sociologist's point of view. 319–333
Ervin-Tripp, Susan M. A psychologist's point of view. 335–339