Mothers' Speech Adjustments and Child Language Learning: Some Methodological Considerations  

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Cross, Toni G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 1 (1979), page 3-24.
Fulltext: 01_01_Cross.pdf (917.91KB)

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This paper reviews some of the methodological and conceptual problems confronted in the study of the role of adult-child interactions in the process of language acquisition. Consideration is given to the basic methodological approach of the sLxties and early seventies, to recent f'mdings of 'input' studies and to data from parent-child conversations coUeeted in the author's laboratory. The implications of the f'mding that the child itself plays a major role in influencing the nature of the input and parental interactions are discussed, and conclusions drawn as to the nature of some of the complexities involved in investigating cause and effect in language acquisition. Specifically, it is argued that much of the inconsistency in the results of investigations of cause and effect has been produced by failure to take into account the effects of individual children's linguistic abilities and communicative behaviours on the form and quality of parental conversations with them. The evidence suggests that most features of maternal speech that have been considered facilitative in the acquisition process are correlated with the development of attributes of the child as a conversational partner.

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