- These imitations were later abandoned in favor of more typical one-syllable replications. However, even the latter often showed a greater degree of articulatory approximation to adult models than the typical cases described in the literature.
- The phrase symbolic interaction is here used informally but in a sense compatible with the sociological theory of symbolic interaction derived from the work of George Herbert Mead. Cf., for example, his Mind, Self and Society, ed. Charles W. Morris (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1934).
- Cf. Charles A. Ferguson, “Baby Talk in Six Languages,” in The Ethnography of Communication, ed. John J. Gumperz and Dell Hymes, American Anthropologist, LXVI, 6, Part II (1964), 103–114.
- Quoted material that is reproduced from memory by the author.
- This particular behavior sequence would, from the point of view of social interaction, be considered a “game”, rather than the “role-playing” observed in 3.1 and 3.2. However, judging from the apparent identity of the structure of the child's performance (repetitiveness, fixed sequence of acts) and the formalization of expressive elements (whimpering, laughing), it is questionable whether such a distinction can be ascribed to children at this stage of socialization.
- Intonation and function suggest that the answer is in the indicative, as opposed to the interrogative or the imperative.
- Cf. Wallace L. Chafe, “Language and Consciousness,” Language, L (1974), 112.
- Cf. Emanuel A. Schegloff, “Sequencing in Conversational Openings,” in Directions in Sociolinguistics ed. John J. Gumperz and Dell Hymes (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972), p. 350.
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Volume 27, 1971 - Issue 1-3: Child Language--1975