Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat (May 2016)

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  • Helen Kõrgesaar,
  • Airi Kapanen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5128/ERYa12.08
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12
pp. 125 – 139

Abstract

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"Where does the child get those songs: Linguistic input and output under the microscope" The article discusses the qualitative and functional peculiarities of caregiver speech and child speech, the importance of the way in which children are spoken to, and whether input language has an important role in speech development. Also, an overview is provided of the nature and essential features of input language, presenting the similarities and differences between input and output and describing the ways in which different factors affect the way in which children are interacted with, including child-directed speech. As children acquire language in a speech community, with different social situations and with interlocutors whose language exhibits varying degrees of phonological, morphological, syntactic and semantic competence, child-directed speech is dynamic and changes as the child matures. The form of child-directed speech is considered to play an important role in children’s language development, and a number of linguistic features that appear during certain time periods in child-directed speech are also reflected in the child’s own speech. However, there are also linguistic features that, while present in adult speech, do not appear at all in child speech.

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