TY - JOUR
T1 - SES effects on the use of variation sets in child-directed speech
AU - Tal, Shira
AU - Arnon, Inbal
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2018/11/1
Y1 - 2018/11/1
N2 - Socio-economic status (SES) impacts the amount and type of input children hear in ways that have developmental consequences. Here, we examine the effect of SES on the use of variation sets (successive utterances with partial self-repetitions) in child-directed speech (CDS). Variation sets have been found to facilitate language learning, but have been studied only in higher-SES groups. Here, we examine their use in naturalistic speech in two languages (Hebrew and English) for both low-and high-SES caregivers. We find that variation sets are more frequent in the input of high-SES caregivers in both languages, indicating that SES also impacts structural properties of CDS.
AB - Socio-economic status (SES) impacts the amount and type of input children hear in ways that have developmental consequences. Here, we examine the effect of SES on the use of variation sets (successive utterances with partial self-repetitions) in child-directed speech (CDS). Variation sets have been found to facilitate language learning, but have been studied only in higher-SES groups. Here, we examine their use in naturalistic speech in two languages (Hebrew and English) for both low-and high-SES caregivers. We find that variation sets are more frequent in the input of high-SES caregivers in both languages, indicating that SES also impacts structural properties of CDS.
KW - SES
KW - child-directed speech
KW - variation sets
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049571940&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0305000918000223
DO - 10.1017/S0305000918000223
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C2 - 29974833
AN - SCOPUS:85049571940
SN - 0305-0009
VL - 45
SP - 1423
EP - 1438
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
IS - 6
ER -