Child Directed Speech

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  • Created by: axx10
  • Created on: 04-06-19 08:43

Child Directed Speech (CDS)

  • Pragmatics

- speak more slowly

higher pitch range

exaggerated singsong intonation

  • Lexis&Semantics

- use of concrete nouns and dynamic verbs

- adopt child's own words for things

- frequent use of child's name

  • Grammar

- frequent use of imperatives and repetition

simpler constructions

fewer verbs, modifiers and adjectives

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- Not every culture uses such forms of CDS. In countries like Samoa

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