Caregiver Language
- Created by: Chloe
- Created on: 14-12-20 15:40
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- Caregiver Language
- Caregiver language aims to:
- Attract and hold the baby's attention
- Help the process of breaking down language into understandable chunks
- Make the conversation more predictable by referring to the here-and-now
- Higher pitch and exaggerated intonation and stress
- Repeated sentence frames such as "that's a..." and "that's a..." whereby the gap is filled with a different word each time
- Repetition and partial repetition of the adult's own words
- Questions and commands (getting the child to do something)
- Frequent use of the child's name and absence of pronouns
- Absence of past tenses e.g. threw, ran, played
- A large number of one-word utterances
- Use of simple sentences e.g. Fred eats rats
- Omission of inflections such as plurals (planets) and possessives (mummy's)
- Fewer verbs, modifiers (e.g. adjectives in front of nouns) and function words such as 'my' 'at' etc.
- Use of concrete nouns (cat, train etc.) and dynamic verbs (give, put etc.)
- Use of expansions-where the adult fills out the child's utterance
- Use of re-castings-where the baby's vocabulary is put into a new utterance
- Caregiver language aims to:
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