motheresen.

Brit.

/ˌmʌðəˈriːz/, U.S.

/ˌməðəˈriz/

Forms: also with capital initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother n.¹, -ese suffix.

Etymology: < mother n.¹ + -ese suffix.Introduced by E. L. Newport in ‘Motherese and its relation to the child's acquisition of language’, an unpublished paper presented at the Conference on Language Input and Acquisition, Boston (Massachusetts), in September 1974. The term is also found in the title of her 1972 Spencer Foundation grant proposal ‘Motherese: a study of how mothers speak to young children’.

Chiefly Social Psychology and Linguistics.

A simplified form of language used (esp. by mothers) in speaking to babies and young children, characterized by repetition, simple sentence structure, limited vocabulary, onomatopoeia, and expressive intonation; child-directed speech; ‘baby talk’.

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1975 New Scientist 18 Sept. 633/3 It is very conspicuous that mothers talk to their babies in quite different kinds of sentences from those they use in adult conversation. Motherese is the means by which mothers let their children down lightly into the labyrinth of syntactic structure.

1977 E. L. Newport et al. in C. E. Snow & C. A. Ferguson Talking to Children 112 Many recent investigations do reveal that mothers' speech differs from speech among adults... This stylistic variant of everyday speech is systematic enough to deserve its own name; we have called it ‘Motherese'.

1984 Economist 28 Apr. 94/3 Take ‘motherese’, the simplified speech of a mother to her child. An adult uses motherese to make statements easier to understand, gradually elaborating them as a child progresses, the better to teach him.

1994 Amer. Scientist Oct. 438/1 Anne Fernald of Stanford University, who studies Motherese, the prosodically exaggerated speech mothers address to their infants, reports that the more mothers vary their vocal pitch, the more infants seem to like it.

2000 New Yorker 10 Jan. 85/1 This sort of Motherese—with its elongated vowels and repetitions and overpronounced syllables—is just the thing for babies to develop their language skills.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	motherese
释义	motheresen. Brit. /ˌmʌðəˈriːz/, U.S. /ˌməðəˈriz/ Forms: also with capital initial. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mother n.¹, -ese suffix. Etymology: < mother n.¹ + -ese suffix.Introduced by E. L. Newport in ‘Motherese and its relation to the child's acquisition of language’, an unpublished paper presented at the Conference on Language Input and Acquisition, Boston (Massachusetts), in September 1974. The term is also found in the title of her 1972 Spencer Foundation grant proposal ‘Motherese: a study of how mothers speak to young children’. Chiefly Social Psychology and Linguistics. A simplified form of language used (esp. by mothers) in speaking to babies and young children, characterized by repetition, simple sentence structure, limited vocabulary, onomatopoeia, and expressive intonation; child-directed speech; ‘baby talk’. ΚΠ 1975 New Scientist 18 Sept. 633/3 It is very conspicuous that mothers talk to their babies in quite different kinds of sentences from those they use in adult conversation. Motherese is the means by which mothers let their children down lightly into the labyrinth of syntactic structure. 1977 E. L. Newport et al. in C. E. Snow & C. A. Ferguson Talking to Children 112 Many recent investigations do reveal that mothers' speech differs from speech among adults... This stylistic variant of everyday speech is systematic enough to deserve its own name; we have called it ‘Motherese'. 1984 Economist 28 Apr. 94/3 Take ‘motherese’, the simplified speech of a mother to her child. An adult uses motherese to make statements easier to understand, gradually elaborating them as a child progresses, the better to teach him. 1994 Amer. Scientist Oct. 438/1 Anne Fernald of Stanford University, who studies Motherese, the prosodically exaggerated speech mothers address to their infants, reports that the more mothers vary their vocal pitch, the more infants seem to like it. 2000 New Yorker 10 Jan. 85/1 This sort of Motherese—with its elongated vowels and repetitions and overpronounced syllables—is just the thing for babies to develop their language skills. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1975
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