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?

Parents and CDS

Mummy and Daddy
* What do parents/carers provide a child with?
- Food
- Emotional support
- Models
- Guidance
* How does this stimulate Language Acquisition?
- Correct syntax
- Heed demands
- Provide network-building opportunities
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* Which theorists do we know include the role of the parents?
- Skinner
- Chomsky (to realise the correct rules)
- Bruner (LASS)
- Nelson (Recasts)

Lexemes in CDS
* Reduplication - Bye-Bye
* Deletion and Substitution - Jim-Jams
* Addition - Doggie

How is baby talk (CDS) pronounced?
* Simple features
* Exaggerated prosodic features
* Exaggerated pauses with turn-taking cues.
* Higher pitch

What features are there of CDS

* Repetition or repeated sentence frames
* The child’s name rather than pronouns
* Present tense
* One word utterances or ellipsis
* Slower speech
* Few verbs or modifiers
* Concrete nouns
* Emphasised phonemes
* Expansions (the expanding of a child’s utterances)
* Recasts – the extending of and rephrasing of an utterance.
* Yes/no questions

Theorists
- Bruner and his LASS
- Bruner said that ritualised activities help parents make rules and meanings predictable and explicit.
- What does peek-a-boo teach children? (Piagets Object Permanence)
- What about hickory-dickory-clock?
- One, two, three, four, five?