Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- In memory of Miwa Nishimura
- Preface
- Introduction
- Language acquisition
- 1 Ontogeny of language
- 2 Caregivers' speech
- 3 The intrinsic link between gesture and speech at the prelinguistic stage
- 4 Infant speech perception
- 5 Phonological acquisition
- 6 The mechanism of lexical development: implications from Japanese children's word learning
- 7 The acquisition of nouns and verbs in Japanese
- 8 The acquisition of verbal nouns
- 9 The acquisition of Japanese numeral classifiers
- 10 The acquisition of case markers
- 11 The acquisition of tense and aspect
- 12 On the origin of children's errors: the case of Japanese negation and direct passive
- 13 Binding Theory in UG and first-language acquisition of Japanese
- 14 The acquisition of the particles ne, yo, and no
- 15 The acquisition of linguistic politeness in Japanese
- 16 Children's narrative structures
- 17 Memory talk and testimony in children
- 18 Developmental dyslexia
- 19 Japanese Sign Language
- 20 The role of an innate acquisition device in second-language acquisition
- 21 Japanese, the grammar of reflexives, and second-language acquisition
- 22 Processes in L2 Japanese sentence production
- 23 The development of lexical competence among second-language readers
- 24 Reading in Japanese as a second language
- 25 Intrasentential code-switching in Japanese and English
- Part II Language processing
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
2 - Caregivers' speech
from Language acquisition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- In memory of Miwa Nishimura
- Preface
- Introduction
- Language acquisition
- 1 Ontogeny of language
- 2 Caregivers' speech
- 3 The intrinsic link between gesture and speech at the prelinguistic stage
- 4 Infant speech perception
- 5 Phonological acquisition
- 6 The mechanism of lexical development: implications from Japanese children's word learning
- 7 The acquisition of nouns and verbs in Japanese
- 8 The acquisition of verbal nouns
- 9 The acquisition of Japanese numeral classifiers
- 10 The acquisition of case markers
- 11 The acquisition of tense and aspect
- 12 On the origin of children's errors: the case of Japanese negation and direct passive
- 13 Binding Theory in UG and first-language acquisition of Japanese
- 14 The acquisition of the particles ne, yo, and no
- 15 The acquisition of linguistic politeness in Japanese
- 16 Children's narrative structures
- 17 Memory talk and testimony in children
- 18 Developmental dyslexia
- 19 Japanese Sign Language
- 20 The role of an innate acquisition device in second-language acquisition
- 21 Japanese, the grammar of reflexives, and second-language acquisition
- 22 Processes in L2 Japanese sentence production
- 23 The development of lexical competence among second-language readers
- 24 Reading in Japanese as a second language
- 25 Intrasentential code-switching in Japanese and English
- Part II Language processing
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
Overview
The nature of caregivers' speech to young children has been investigated to examine how it varies as a function of children's age or linguistic ability. Research shows that caregivers' speech styles vary in several dimensions: para-linguistic dimension (e.g. the height and range of pitch), syntactic dimension (e.g. simplicity), lexical dimension (e.g. baby-talk words), semantic dimension (e.g. references to here and now), and discourse dimension (e.g. repetition) (Garton, 1992). Research also reveals that caregivers tune their speech to the children's age or linguistic ability for some dimensions (Snow, 1995).
Another set of studies addressed the effects of caregivers' speech on the timing of language development and style of language acquisition by children. Studies have examined the proportions of directive or descriptive utterances and utterances including nouns or verbs to see whether they are related to the patterns of language acquisition by children (Pine, Lieven & Rowland, 1997). Maternal responsiveness affects the timing of language development in children (Tamis-LeMonda, Bornstein & Baumwell, 2001).
Furthermore, since the 1980s, investigations have focused on the caregiver–child pair as a unit, based on the view that children develop through their active participation in interactions with their companions (e.g. Rogoff, 1990). In these studies, conversations between children and their caregivers have been an important focus, because language acquisition is thought to be embedded in a sociocultural context.
Comparative studies between Japan and North America revealed that Japanese mothers are more affection or empathy oriented and less information oriented than North American mothers (e.g. Bornstein et al., 1992).
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- The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics , pp. 20 - 25Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006