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Record 1 1994-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
CONT

["Care-giver language"] is the unique language that most adults use when they speak to young children: it takes the form of baby-talk when the children are very young.... In baby-talk, the earliest version of care-giver language, it is not just the choice of words that is different-even the sounds are changed and repeated....

Key term(s)
  • babytalk

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
OBS

Façon de s'adresser à un jeune enfant en imitant son langage.

Spanish

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