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ERIC Number: EJ070723
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1973
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Syntax and Vocabulary of Mothers' Speech to Young Children: Age and Sex Comparisons
Phillips, Juliet R.
Child Development, 44, 1, 182-5, Mar 73
Study examined the hypotheses that adults do not speak to children as they speak to other adults and that the speech addressed to a child becomes more adult-like as the child increases in linguistic competence. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Articulation (Speech), Language Acquisition, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Sex Differences, Syntax, Vocabulary
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