Child-Directed Speech in Qaqet : A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

• Autore: Frye Henrike
• Pubblicazione: Canberra, : ANU Press, 2022; Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2022; ©2022
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 electronic resource (198 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Qaqet language; linguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Setting the scene -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Child-directed speech -- 1.3 Qaqet Baining -- 1.4 Database and methods -- 1.5 Outlook -- 2. The language environment -- 2.1 Child rearing practices and frameworks of interaction -- 2.2 Assessing attitudes -- 2.3 The amount of input -- 2.4 Summary: Factors contributing to the language environment of children in Raunsepna -- Part II: Comparison of adult- and child-directed speech -- 3. Direct comparison of ADS and CDS: The Qaqet pear story corpus -- 3.1 Methods of data collection -- 3.2 The data -- 4. Mean length of utterance -- 4.1 Previous research on MLU in CDS -- 4.2 Utterances -- 4.3 Words or morphemes? -- 4.4 Procedure and results -- 4.5 Summary: MLU in Qaqet CDS -- 5. Disfluencies -- 5.1 Previous research on disfluencies in CDS -- 5.2 A model of disfluency pauses with reference to Qaqet -- 5.3 Disfluency pauses: Comparison of CDS and ADS -- 5.4 Distribution of hesitations -- 5.5 Summary: Disfluencies in Qaqet CDS -- 6. Prosodic features -- 6.1 Previous research on prosodic features of CDS -- 6.2 Method and results -- 6.3 Summary: Prosodic features of CDS in Qaqet -- 7. Directing attention: Speech acts in Qaqet CDS‑narratives -- 7.1 Previous research on speech acts in CDS -- 7.2 Data coding and selection -- 7.3 Functions of regulatory intonation units -- 7.4 Summary: Fulfilling a common task -- 8. Corrective input -- 8.1 Previous research on corrective input -- 8.2 Adults' reactions to non-target-like child utterances -- 8.3 Summary: Imitation and recast -- 9. CDS and the Qaqet lexicon -- 9.1 Previous research on special babytalk words -- 9.2 Babytalk words in the CDS-pear stories -- 9.3 Summary -- 10. Conclusion -- 10.1 Hypothesis -- 10.2 Socio-economic background -- 10.3 Language attitudes -- 10.4 The amount of input. ; 10.5 Structural features of Qaqet CDS -- 10.6 Limitations and future research -- Appendix: Interview guideline and results -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Qaqet 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Child-directed Speech in Qaqet
• ISBN: 9781760465179; 1760465178
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910595463503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asia-Pacific Linguistics Series