Parental speech to typical and atypical populations: a study on linguistic partial repetition

• Main Authors: Onnis, Luca, Esposito, Gianluca, Venuti, Paola, Edelman, Shimon
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Atypical Development; Child-directed Speech
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146710
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Parents often use partial self-repetitions with variation in successive utterances (e.g., Want to get your ball? Get your ball? Do you want to get your ball?). Such ‘variation sets’ contain latent distributional information about the building blocks of language and are predictive of children's...