CDS theory

Question 1

What did Clarke-Stewart argue?

Answer 1

Children whose mothers spoke more, have a larger vocabulary themselves

Question 2

What did Nelson find out about children in the holophrastic stage?

Answer 2

Mothers who corrected the children on the word choice advanced more slowly than those who were accepting.

Question 3

What did Brown, Cazden and Bellugi say?

Answer 3

Parents often respond to the truth value of what their baby is saying, rather than its grammatical correctness

Question 4

What was Berko and Brown’s study and findings?

Answer 4

Brown spoke to a child who referred to a child who said ‘fis’ instead of fish. Brown replied using ‘fis’ and the child said, ‘No, fis’. Brown reverted back to saying fish and the child said ‘Yes, fis’
Babies don’t hear themselves in the same way that they hear others - no amount of correctness could change this

Question 5

What was Richman, Miller and LeVine’s study?

Answer 5

Compared middle class US mothers and Gusii mothers of Kenya. Gusii mothers rarely make eye contact with their children and only respond to child vocalisations if children are in disress. Both acquired language at the same rate.
Gusii mothers follow the beliefs that babies can’t understand speech so it’s senseless to talk to them.

Question 6

What group of people did Ochs and Shieffelin’s study and what did they find?

Answer 6

Kaluli of Papua New Guinea. Believe their children to be helpless and have no undestanding so don’t talk to them.