Child Directed Speech

Question 1

What are features of CDS?

Answer 1

• phonology
• lexis
• grammar
• scaffolding
• pragmatics

Question 2

What is phonology?

Answer 2

• speech is slower

- ‘singsong’ intonation

Question 3

What is lexis?

Answer 3

• use of concrete nouns

- frequent use of child’s name or pronouns

Question 4

What is grammar?

Answer 4

• repetition
• personal names (mummy not i)
• tag questions and closed questions
• simple sentences

Question 5

What does scaffolding involve?

Answer 5

Expansions

Re-casting

Question 6

What do pragmatics do?

Answer 6

Few utterances to give child time to respond

Question 7

What did Katherine Nelson (1973) find?

Answer 7

Children who made mistakes in the holophrastic stage and had corrective mother’s advanced faster than those with accepting mothers