Voorbeelden van motherese

• This includes vocal behavior that is clearly directed at the infant, which is the criterion she uses to describe and define the characteristics of motherese.

• Falk is right that the phonetic aspects of motherese are derived from primate vocalizations.

• Where it occurs, baby talk or motherese is commonly assumed to simplify language learning and to contribute to the linguistic development of children.

• The origins of spoken motherese are as clouded with mystery as are the origins of speech.

• Thus, parents unconsciously establish eye contact with infants and then use motherese to maintain joint attention.

• Therefore, it could be that, alongside motherese, song plays a far more important role than hitherto realized.

• In avoiding that question, we have missed the most logical link between motherese and language learning.

• Motherese could be an aspect of language at the crossing or at the origin of communicative and cognitive content.

• Graded teacher-talk in the classroom, motherese, international business negotiations between nonnative speakers and scripted television soap operas would all be classified as authentic.

• This form of speech has come to be known as infant-directed, or motherese.

• Like motherese, syntax is a handy tool to have, but you can get along fine without it.

• That is to say, without motherese there would perhaps be no language at all.

• It is relational, and, like motherese (which is but one element in the engagement), it has developmental benefits and adaptive implications.

• It is possible that motherese illustrates one aspect of human language besides other aspects involving communicative as well as cognitive processes.

• The second is that motherese developed to control the behavior of nonambulatory infants.