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de Somer, Gail – 1988
The bibliography contains over 50 annotated citations of research on the nature of maternal speech and its effects on child language development. It is limited to studies focusing on verbal features of mothers' speech to normal one-to-four-year-olds learning English. The first section is devoted to literature describing characteristics specific to…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Mothers
