"My sister is a Dog": A Study on Children's Speech and Literature

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1989
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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This paper examines children's dialogue and its rendering in children's literature, by looking at the speech and literature of eight (8) and nine (9) year olds, in an effort to find mappings from one to the other. The mappings are being applied in an effort to improve the author's own effectiveness in writing fiction for children. Several distinctive features of speech were found to be significantly characteristic of children's dialogue. Thus, it has been concluded that children's speech does have uniquenesses that distinguish it from adult speech, and which necessitate consideration in order to write literature that rings true for children.
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