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    Caretaker Speech

    Caretaker speech is the language used by parents or other adults when talking to infants
    or young children. The three factors which influence caretaker speech are 1) making sure that
    children realize a speech is being addressed to them, 2) choosing the right words and sentences
    after getting children’s attention, and 3) saying things in many different ways. Three type of
    attention getters: name, exclamation and modulation (Cark & Clark, 1977,pp.321-322)

    Caretaker speech has several characteristics: it mainly deals with here and now to young
    children, it is generally spoken more slowly and distinctly, it contains simple structures and very
    few complex sentences, and it contains baby talk.

    Baby talk has three main characteristics: 1) the use of diminutive form of adult’s words
    with a reduplication of a consonant + vowel syllable unit, 2) the use of onomatopoeic principle to
    form words, and 3) the use of the /iy/ suffix as in doggy and horsy.

    Caretaker speech seems particularly well suited for helping children to acquire language.
    It is clearer and easier to understand. It’s simplified structure and vocabulary provides children
    with more comprehensible input. Such input is surely an important factor in the language
    development.

    Question and Answer

    1. What is a care taker speech and what are other terms which refer to this particular speech;
    explain why is it named so?

     Caretaker speech is a sort of speech that children receive when they are still very
    young: a speech addressed to infants by adults. Caretaker speech is often referred to as
    motherese, care giver speech, adult to child language (ACL), and child directed speech
    (CDS). It indicates the fact that children receive linguistic input from different sources
    especially people around them such as mother, father, siblings, relatives, and friends.

    2. Give some reasons why caretaker speech has attracted great attention to psycholinguist!

     It has specific characteristics, it provides examples of language model infants are


    usually exposed to, and it also provides an indirect measure of how much children
    understand. Cark & Clark, 1977, p. 320)
    3. Discuss the different ways adult use to get children’s attention.

     a. adults often use the child’s name in the beginning to make them attend.
    b. adults often use exclamation such as Look! Hey! as a preface to teach utterance.
    c. adults often use modulations to distinguish speech addressed to young children from the
    speech addressed to other listeners (adults)
    d. adults often use here and now topic.

    4. The speech which adults address to young children has a number of distinctive characters,
    explain!

     Caretaker speech has several characteristics: it mainly deals with here and now to
    young children, it is generally spoken more slowly and distinctly, it contains simple
    structures and very few complex sentences, and it contains baby talk.

    5. According to Kess, baby talk only fulfills a pseudo-function in linguistic terms. What does it
    mean?

     It is only a marker of affection and caring that this function is supported by the
    finding that babies typically prefer voices employing baby talk features.

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