Parents and CDS

Mummy and Daddy

• What do parents provide a child with?
• How does this stimulate Language Acquisition?
• Which theorists do we know include the role of the parents?

What are these really?

CDS – Child Directed Speech

• Reduplication
• Deletion and Substitution
• Addition

How is baby talk (CDS) said?

• Simple features
• Exaggerated prosodic features

What features are there of CDS?

• Repetition or repeated sentence frames
• Higher pitch
• The child’s name rather than pronouns
• Present tense
• One word utterances or ellipsis
• Few verbs or modifiers
• Concrete nouns
• Expansions (the expanding of a child’s utterances)
• Recasts – the extending of and rephrasing of an utterance.
• Yes/no questions
• Exaggerated pauses with turn-taking cues.

Theorists

Bruner and his LASS

• Ritualised activities help parents make rules and meanings predictable and explicit.
• What does peek-a-boo teach children?
• What about hickory-dickory-clock
• One, two, three, four, five?