Child Directed Speech Flashcards
1
Q
What are features of CDS?
A
- phonology
- lexis
- grammar
- scaffolding
- pragmatics
2
Q
What is phonology?
A
- speech is slower
- ‘singsong’ intonation
3
Q
What is lexis?
A
- use of concrete nouns
- frequent use of child’s name or pronouns
4
Q
What is grammar?
A
- repetition
- personal names (mummy not i)
- tag questions and closed questions
- simple sentences
5
Q
What does scaffolding involve?
A
Expansions
Re-casting
6
Q
What do pragmatics do?
A
Few utterances to give child time to respond
7
Q
What did Katherine Nelson (1973) find?
A
Children who made mistakes in the holophrastic stage and had corrective mother’s advanced faster than those with accepting mothers
