Author: FP

Universal 1862: Original The acute/grave opposition of compact nasal consonants implies an identical opposition of compact oral stops. Standardized IF there is a acute/grave opposition…

Universal 1863: Original “… wesshalb die Verdoppelung vorzüglich bei Adjectiven statt findet, da bei der Eigenschaft das besonders auffällt, daß sie nicht als einzelner Körper,…

Universal 1864: Original There is a “tone of voice” appropriate for talking to young children:(i) overall higher pitch and/or exaggerated intonation contours;(ii) slower speech tempo.…

Universal 1865: Original Baby talk has shorter sentences, fewer subordinate clauses, fewer grammatical relations, more repetitions than normal adult-to-adult speech, often omits inflections and function…

Universal 1866: Original Every speech community seems to have a small lexicon of words used primarily with young children. The words of this special lexicon…

Universal 1867: Original Baby talk is also characterized by:high percentage of questions;frequent use of tags;here-and-now semantics;high semantic continuity between pairs of utterances;striking shifts in pronoun…

Universal 1868: Original The most striking – and apparently universal – variability is in what can be called “degree of babyishness”. Changes in the degree…

Universal 1869: Original Core items of the baby talk register tend to persist for long periods of time. Standardized Core items of the baby talk…

Universal 1870: Original Like other registers, baby talk or selected features of it may be extended to secondary uses, e.g. (i) to suggest the speech…

Universal 1871: Original It holds as a strong statistical implication that whenever there is a 1st person exclusive dual there is also a 1st person…