CDS

Question 1

CDS

Answer 1

academic term for the language used by adults/caregivers when addressing children

Question 2

CDS aims

Answer 2

• attract and hold 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

Question 3

Exaggerated prosodic cues

Answer 3

exaggerates phonetic sounds

Question 4

over-articulating

Answer 4

using more precise sounds contained in the words, stretching out sounds, sounding out more ‘super vowels’

Question 5

expatiation

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expanding further on the word by giving more information

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labelling

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providing the name of objects, using simplified vocabulary

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expansions

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where the parent ‘fills out’ the child’s utterance to make it more accurate or detailed

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recastings

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where the child’s vocabulary is reconstructed into a new utterance or context

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echoing

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repeating what the child has said to confirm correct understanding/meaning

Question 10

Bryant and Clarke-Bennet

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• intentions can be recognised regardless if meaning is understood
• shuar tribe able to distinguish between ads and cds

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Kuhl

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• studed exaggerated vowel sounds used by parents when speaking to 6 month olds
• English Russian and Swedish
• found that CDS grabbed thier attention

Question 12

Clarke Stewart

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-broadly found that children whose mothers talked more to them had a larger vocabulary

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Kulick and Schieffelin

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• examined the speech of communities in Samoa and Papa New Guinea
• neither cultures used CDS but children linguistically developed