Motherese - Parentese

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Strategies We Employ To Facilitate Language Learning

 

EXAGGERATING PROSODIC CUES – using more exaggerated intonation patterns and slightly higher frequencies, greater pitch variations . Uh oh!

RECASTING – phrasing sentences in different ways, such as making it a question. (dada byebye) daddy…Is daddy going byebye?

ECHOING – repeating what the child said

EXPANSION – restating what the child said in a more linguistically sophisticated form (ball all gone) Yes, we lost the ball

EXPATIATION – expounding further on the word by giving more information. (baba hot) The bottle is hot. We’ll wait until later.

LABELING – providing the name of objects, using simplified vocabulary

OVERARTICULATING – using more precise sounds contained in the words, stretching out sounds, sounding out ‘super-vowels’…examples: ee/ah/oo.

There is an "Automaticity in Parentese" … Ellen A. Rhoades, Ed.S.

Use short, simple sentences that are melodic.

Talk about what child is focused on or is doing.

Repeat what you say and what your child says.

Pause between words.

Use many questions and commands.

Speak more slowly.

There are modifications in the linguistic and prosodic aspects of maternal language with preverbal infants.

[Good caregivers spend much time in face-to-face interaction]

Seminal Researchers: Catherine Snow, Patricia Kuhl