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In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak
not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for
appropriate language use may vary from culture to culture, they are
usually sensitive across languages to many of the same factors,
including the context and the topic of the discourse, and the sex,
age, familiarity and relative status of the speaker and the
listener. There is available detailed evidence of the ways in which
adults consistently modify their speech to foreigners, of
phonological, syntactic, and lexical markings of language in
professional settings, and of differences in men's and women's
speech that are tied to their roles in society. This book examines
young children's knowledge of the sociolinguistic rules that govern
appropriate language use, exploring (i) the repertoire of registers
(ie speech varieties) that young children possess; (ii) the
linguistic devices that they use to mark distinct registers; (iii)
the way their skill in using these registers develops.
In acquiring communicative competence, children must learn to speak
not only grammatically but also appropriately. Although rules for
appropriate language use may vary from culture to culture, they are
usually sensitive across languages to many of the same factors,
including the context and the topic of the discourse, and the sex,
age, familiarity and relative status of the speaker and the
listener. There is available detailed evidence of the ways in which
adults consistently modify their speech to foreigners, of
phonological, syntactic, and lexical markings of language in
professional settings, and of differences in men's and women's
speech that are tied to their roles in society. This book examines
young children's knowledge of the sociolinguistic rules that govern
appropriate language use, exploring (i) the repertoire of registers
(ie speech varieties) that young children possess; (ii) the
linguistic devices that they use to mark distinct registers; (iii)
the way their skill in using these registers develops.
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