LING 355 Lecture 25: LING355 November 11th
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The parent repeating themselves or the parent repeating after the child. Higher pitch and special intonation (especially when talking to babies). Investigated whether mothers adjust their speech to the child"s increasing they are (cid:498)teaching(cid:499) their children. child"s linguistic level. These are all typical characteristics of north american motherese. Regardless of the age of the children morphosyntactic competence, which would appear to be crucial for the idea that. You would expect that mothers, if they are trying to teach their children, would use language that is a little bit ahead of what they believe to be their. Comparisons between mother-to-child speech and mother-to-adult speech for 15 mother-child pairs. Ngg found that mothers do not fine-tune syntactically. In fact, if anything, their children seem to be more advanced than they give them credit for. They adjust their speech to age of child, rather than child"s linguistic level (cid:523)mlu(cid:524).
