The use of a special baby-talk register by adults when talking to children in the early stages of language development is now well established (e.g. Sachs, 1977; Snow, 1976), but it is not yet clear how far the specific form it takes in particular adult-child interactions is the
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Ellis et al. (1980) studied this question.
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