Hyper-articulation of child-directed speech

Christine Kitamura

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    Abstract

    Child-directed speech (CDS) is the speech style used by mothers, fathers, and others to talk to an infant or young child and is known to engage attention, regulate arousal levels, and facilitate language development. Typically, its production involves adopting a strategy of simplifying what is said and exaggerating how it is said, or more specifically, exaggerating its prosodic and phonetic features. Adjustments that make CDS linguistically distinctive from adult-directed speech (ADS) include shorter utterances, more repetition, simplified syntax, and smaller vocabulary. Prosodically, it has exaggerated intonation and positive emotion, and phonetically, it contains hyperarticulation of certain speech sounds.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Language Development
    EditorsPatricia J. Brooks, Vera Kempe
    Place of PublicationU.S.
    PublisherSage
    Pages272-274
    Number of pages3
    ISBN (Electronic)9781483346434
    ISBN (Print)9781452258768
    Publication statusPublished - 2014

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