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Publication details [#8973]

Snow, Catherine E. 1977. Mothers' speech research: From input to interaction. In Snow, Catherine E. and Charles A. Ferguson, eds. Talking to children: Language input and acquisition. Cambridge University Press. pp. 31–49.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult-child conversation | input language | motherese | redundancy

Annotation

S. reviews some basic assumptions about language acquistion which result partly from mothers' speech research. The simplicity and redundancy of mothers' speech are said to be the effects of adjustments to the child influenced by what the child says as much as by its attentiveness and understanding.