Key Terms

Question 1

CDS - EXAGGERATING PROSODIC CUES

Answer 1

using more exaggerated intonation patterns and slightly higher frequencies, greater pitch variations. E.g. ‘Uh oh!’

Question 2

CDS - RECASTING

Answer 2

phrasing sentences in different ways, such as making it a question. E.g. “dada byebye daddy… Is daddy going byebye?’’

Question 3

CDS - ECHOING

Answer 3

repeating what the child said.

Question 4

CDS - EXPANSION

Answer 4

restating what the child said in a more linguistically sophisticated form. E.g. “ball all gone” = “Yes, we lost the ball”

Question 5

CDS - EXPATIATION

Answer 5

expounding further on the word by giving more information. E.g. (baba hot) > Yes, the bottle is hot. We’ll wait until later.

Question 6

CDS - LABELLING

Answer 6

providing the name of objects, using simplified vocabulary

Question 7

CDS - OVERARTICULATING

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Simplification strategies

Answer 8

Deletion of unstressed syllables or final consonants!
Assimilation through consonant or vowel harmony!
Addition of diminutive forms or syllables through reduplication! Consonant cluster reduction!
Substitution of one phoneme for another!
• Sometimes parents will encourage phonological simplification by using the forms
themselves !