Mothers' Use of Substantive Deixis and Nouns with Their Children with Down Syndrome: Some Discrepant Findings.

Cardoso-Martins, Claudia; Mervis, Carolyn B.

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Mothers' Use of Substantive Deixis and Nouns with Their Children with Down Syndrome: Some Discrepant Findings.

Cardoso-Martins, Claudia; Mervis, Carolyn B.

American Journal on Mental Retardation, v94 n6 p633-37 May 1990

The speech of mothers of six children with Down syndrome was compared to that of mothers of nonretarded children, when subjects were aged 17-38 months. No significant differences were observed between the two groups for either proportion of substantive deixis or proportion of nouns (as opposed to pronouns). (Author/JDD)

Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Downs Syndrome, Interpersonal Communication, Language Acquisition, Mothers, Nouns, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Education, Pronouns, Speech Communication, Vocabulary

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