LEADER 02883nam 22005173 450 001 9910595463503321 005 20240327151731.0 010 $a1-76046-517-8 035 $a(CKB)5680000000076778 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93335 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29574152 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29574152 035 $a(EXLCZ)995680000000076778 100 $a20240318d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChild-Directed Speech in Qaqet $eA Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCanberra :$cANU Press,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2022. 215 $a1 electronic resource (198 pages) 225 0 $aAsia-Pacific Linguistics. 311 $a1-76046-516-X 330 $aQaqet is a non-Austronesian language, spoken by about 15,000 people in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In the remote inland, children acquire Qaqet as their first language. Much of what we know about child?directed speech (CDS) stems from children living in middle?class, urban, industrialised contexts. This book combines evidence from different methods, showing that the features typical for speech to children in such contexts are also found in Qaqet CDS. Preliminary insights from naturalistic audio recordings suggest that Qaqet children are infrequently addressed directly. In interviews, Qaqet caregivers express the view that children 'pick up' the language on their own. Still, they have clear ideas about how to talk to children in a way that makes it easier for them to understand what is said. In order to compare adult- and child-directed speech in Qaqet, 20 retellings of a film have been analysed, half of them told to adults and half to children. The data show that talk directed to children differs from talk directed to adults for several features, among them utterance type, mean length of utterance, amount of hesitations and intonation. Despite this clear tendency, there seems to be a cut-off point of around 40 months of age for several of those features from which the talk directed to children becomes more like the talk directed to adults. 606 $aQaqet language 606 $alinguistics$2bicssc 606 $aHistorical & comparative linguistics$2bicssc 610 $aQaqet 610 $alanguage 610 $aEast New Britain 610 $aPapua New Guinea 610 $achild?directed speech 615 0$aQaqet language. 615 7$alinguistics 615 7$aHistorical & comparative linguistics 700 $aFrye$b Henrike$01288389 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910595463503321 996 $aChild-directed Speech in Qaqet$93020805 997 $aUNINA