eprintid: 10004294
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datestamp: 2010-05-12 11:51:10
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type: article
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creators_name: Saxton, Matthew
creators_id: m.saxton@ioe.ac.uk
title: What's in a name? Coming to terms with the child's linguistic environment
ispublished: pub
divisions: B14
note: © Cambridge University Press 2008.
abstract: This article reviews the proliferation of terms that have been coined to denote the language environment of the young child. It is argued that terms are often deployed by researchers without due consideration of their appropriateness for particular empirical studies. It is further suggested that just three of the dozen or more available terms meet the needs of child language researchers in most instances: Child Directed Speech, Infant Directed Speech and exposure language. The phenomena denoted by these terms are then considered. The term register is generally borrowed for this purpose from sociolinguistics. However, close inspection of this concept reveals that the notion of register needs to be constrained, in specified ways, in order to be of any real value within the field of child language research.
date: 2008
date_type: published
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Child Language
volume: 35
number: 4
pagerange: 677-686
pages: 10
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1469-7602
citation:        Saxton, Matthew;      (2008)    What's in a name? Coming to terms with the child's linguistic environment.                   Journal of Child Language , 35  (4)   pp. 677-686.          Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10004294/1/SAXTON2008What%27s677.pdf