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Sachs, Jacqueline. 1977. The adaptive significance of linguistic input to prelinguistic infants. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 51–61.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adaptation | input language | pre-verbal interaction

Annotation

S. argues that the characteristics of adults' speech to children have adaptive significance for the development of the child's communication with its social world.