CHILD DIRECTED SPEECH THEORIES

Question 1

Clarke-stewart (1973)

Answer 1

Found that children whose mothers talk more have larger vocabularies

Question 2

Katherine nelson (1973)

Answer 2

Found that children at the holophrastic stage whose mothers corrected them on word choice actually advanced slower than mothers who are more accepting

Question 3

Brown, cazden and bellugi

Answer 3

Found that parents often respond to the true value of what their kids are saying e.g. more likely to respond to “there doggie!” With “yes that is a dog!” Than “no, there is a dog”

Question 4

Berko and brown

Answer 4

Found that babies do not hear themselves in the same way they hear others, no amount of correction will change this