Pre-Sleep Speech Monologues

摘要

Relations between a child's spontaneous social speech and pre-sleep monologue speech were investigated, as well as an attempt to determine the role of pre-sleep monologues in the child's acquisition of his mother tongue. Analysis to date suggest that children's pre-sleep monologues do serve important functions in the child's acquisition of his native tongue. These functions vary from child to child, however, and across the developmental period of concern. These preliminary conclusions will be expanded upon completion of the analysis of the data.