What Is Child-Directed Speech? What Are Some Other Strategies Adults

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Essay

What is child-directed speech? What are some other strategies adults use to increase infants' acquisition of language? Provide an example of an adult using child-directed speech.

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Definitions:

Hypotheses

Propositions or assumptions made for the sake of argument or investigation, to be tested through research.

Discarded

Objects, substances, or ideas that have been thrown away or rejected as no longer useful or relevant.

Stigma Consciousness

The heightened sensitivity to situations where one may be subject to stereotype or discrimination due to an attribute, leading to potential adjustments in behavior or self-perception.

Stereotype Threat

The anxiety or fear that one's behavior or performance might confirm a negative stereotype about one's group, potentially undermining performance.