Comanche Baby Language

Casagrande, Joseph B.

doi:10.1086/463971

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“…Each language has a canonical form which predominates in its baby-talk, usually CVC, CVCV, or CVCCV, and reduplication of syllables or whole words is common. Support for these findings may be found in Casagrande's (1964)…”

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Speech Addressed to Children: Issues and Characteristics of Parental Input

Landes

1975

Language Learning

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The linguistic environment of the child was largely taken for granted by the generative grammarians of the 1960's because of their emphasis on innate ideas as a basis for first language acquisition. Only recently have researchers studied the child's environment linguistically, indicating that not only are adults sensitive to and affected by the need to communicate with their children, but that interaction patterns between parent and child change according to the increasing language skill of the child. These interaction patterns are linguistically summarized here in terms of their syntactic and stylistic features. Such features include sentence complexity, number of transformations involved, types of sentences addressed to the child, the use of repetition, modeling, correcting, baby talk register, and the speed of delivery. All of these features are correlated with the age of the child, but many relationships are still unexplored and questions unresolvEd. If the current trend of research continues, our outlook on the role of parental input in the process of first language acquisition may change quite drastically.

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Speech Addressed to Children: Issues and Characteristics of Parental Input

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1975

Language Learning

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“…It seems plausible that the parent, who may recognize the child's natural tendency to reduplicate and repeat the same sounds, conventionalizes this proclivity by adopting reduplicated terms when addressing the child (cf. Casagrande 1948). Indeed, reduplication is regarded as a universal feature of the BT register and is well attested to in all available published studies of BT to date (cf.…”

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“…While Latvian speakers, for example, are reported to terminate BT usage at about the age of three (Ru^e-Dravina 1977), members of the Comanche (Casagrande 1948) and Bengali (Dil 1975) speech communities engage in BT until about the age of five or six. Gilyak speakers keep on addressing the child in BT until he is weaned, often up to the age of eight (Austerlitz 1956), while BT to girls in the Cocopa culture (Crawford 1970;cf.…”

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‘Kitchie-koo’ in modern Hebrew: the sociology of Hebrew baby talk

Zeidner¹

1983

International Journal of the Sociology of Language

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One day I caught myself quite by surprise speaking 'baby talk ' (herafter BT) in Hebrew to my own newly born child. Since I am a native English speaker and never had a chance to learn Hebrew BT (hereafter HBT) as a child, I began musing over the nature of the BT I was using. At first I thought I was perhaps applying English BT features to Hebrew, but since I observed my family and Israeli friends addressing my baby in a similar manner, it seemed that I was actually using HBT. If so, how was this possible? As far as I can recall, I was never addressed by my parents in HBT nor did I ever study it formally. If both native and normative speakers of Hebrew use it, how is it acquired? Moreover, if the features of HBT for natives as well as normative speakers are the same, does this indicate some universal principle at work?With curiosity arising from my own personal experience with the phenomenon as sufficient motivational stimulus, the actual course of my inquiry was guided by the following problems:

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“…The underlying theoretical orientation of this research was that understanding the nature of the input to children would be critical to understanding how children develop language. A series of crosslinguistic studies thus investigated the features of caregivers' (especially mothers') talk to infants and young children, with a focus on the phonological patterns resembling immature child speech and the special baby talk lexicon (Casagrande, 1948;Chew, 1969;Cruttenden, 1994;Ferguson, 1964Ferguson, , 1977Grimes, 1955;Shankara Bhat, 1967). These studies, carried out with transcription data, not instrumental analysis, reported baby talk patterns to include consonant cluster reduction, consonant harmony (place or nasality), consonant fronting, labialization, replacement of rhotics, stopping of fricatives, and initial or final deletion.…”

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confidence: 99%