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Mother, I'd still rather do it myself: some further non-effects of ‘motherese’*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Hollis Scarborough
Affiliation:
Rutgers University
Janet Wyckoff
Affiliation:
Rutgers University

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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