Jak zwracamy się do małych dzieci
How do we address young children

Summary/Abstract: The speech directed at a child in its infancy is one of the lingual phenomena having its own specific features. This specification refers both to the phonetic system as well as the morphological and syntactic ones. A distinctive aspect of the speech directed at infants is also creating the forms of address by which the child is called. In this group of forms of address one can find forms derived from a name in which there have occurred certain phonetic and morphological processes and facultative methods of calling the recipient of a text, for instance metaphorical expressions or metonymy. The forms of address directed at infants apart from identification and differential functions are also known to be a lingual tool used by a speaker to express their emotions towards a young child.

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