儿向语语言特征研究状况综述

A Survey of Researches on Child Directed Speech

儿向语是儿童主要照顾者(一般为母亲)对儿童的简易化使用域,它是儿童语言习得过程中主要的语言信息输入。综合国内外语言学家在儿向语研究中所采用的研究视角、研究方法以及相应的研究结论,其中对儿向语的语言特征及其影响因素、儿向语在儿童早期词汇习得中的作用以及儿向语中是否存在名词或者动词倾向性等问题的讨论,对儿向语的进一步研究多有启示。

Child directed speech(CDS) is simplified items used by caretakers(mostly the mother) in their communication with children.It is the main input in children's language acquisition.This paper makes a survey on perspectives,methods,and conclusions of researches on CDS carried out by linguistics at home and abroad.Their studies include features of CDS,influencing factors of these features,function of caretaker's speech in child's acquisition of lexicons,and the presence of noun or verb inclination in CDS.