"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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Abstract
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.