Child-directed Speech in Qaqet: A Language of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea

Acknowledgements
Part I: Setting the scene
	1. Introduction
		1.1 Overview
		1.2 Child-directed speech
		1.3 Qaqet Baining
		1.4 Database and methods
		1.5 Outlook
	2. The language environment
		2.1 Child rearing practices and frameworks of interaction
		2.2 Assessing attitudes
		2.3 The amount of input
		2.4 Summary: Factors contributing to the language environment of children in Raunsepna
Part II: Comparison of adult- and child-directed speech
	3. Direct comparison of ADS and CDS: The Qaqet pear story corpus
		3.1 Methods of data collection
		3.2 The data
	4. Mean length of utterance
		4.1 Previous research on MLU in CDS
		4.2 Utterances
		4.3 Words or morphemes?
		4.4 Procedure and results
		4.5 Summary: MLU in Qaqet CDS
	5. Disfluencies
		5.1 Previous research on disfluencies in CDS
		5.2 A model of disfluency pauses with reference to Qaqet
		5.3 Disfluency pauses: Comparison of CDS and ADS
		5.4 Distribution of hesitations
		5.5 Summary: Disfluencies in Qaqet CDS
	6. Prosodic features
		6.1 Previous research on prosodic features of CDS
		6.2 Method and results
		6.3 Summary: Prosodic features of CDS in Qaqet
	7. Directing attention: Speech acts in Qaqet CDS‑narratives
		7.1 Previous research on speech acts in CDS
		7.2 Data coding and selection
		7.3 Functions of regulatory intonation units
		7.4 Summary: Fulfilling a common task
	8. Corrective input
		8.1 Previous research on corrective input
		8.2 Adults’ reactions to non-target-like child utterances
		8.3 Summary: Imitation and recast
	9. CDS and the Qaqet lexicon
		9.1 Previous research on special babytalk words
		9.2 Babytalk words in the CDS-pear stories
		9.3 Summary
	10. Conclusion
		10.1 Hypothesis
		10.2 Socio-economic background
		10.3 Language attitudes
		10.4 The amount of input
		10.5 Structural features of Qaqet CDS
		10.6 Limitations and future research
Appendix: Interview guideline and results
References
Index