Quiche Mayan speech to children  

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Pye, Clifton

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 13 no. 1 (Feb. 1986), page 85-100.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/13 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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Details of the linguistic modifications in speech to children are provided for the Mayan language Quiche. Quiche input is evaluated with respect to 17 features listed in Ferguson (1978). Eight additional features are noted for Quiche speech to children: whispering, initial-syllable deletion, BT forms for verbs, a verbal suffix that appears exclusively in speech to children, a relatively fixed word order with relatively fewer overt noun phrases, more imperatives, and a special interpretive routine. Quiche parents have a special register for speaking to young children. However, Quiche speech to children has only five of the features that Ferguson cites: repetition, BT forms for qualities, compound verbs, diminutives, and special sounds. This suggests that the features of speech to children are not universal, but are determined by the conventions for interacting with children in each community. Functional explanations of such features will have to take this degree of cultural variation into consideration.

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