Kidspeak: A Dictionary of Australian Children's Words, Expressions and Games

by June Factor

By the time they are five or six years old, children have learnt to explain, complain, admire, speculate, imagine, enquire, agree, argue and shock in their mother tongue. They can burble and coo to a baby, speak 'correctly' to their elders, and converse in the slang of their peers. Some may be fluent in more than one 'adult' language; all but the most isolated are becoming expert in the ways their friends speak. Children's creative use of language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0522847900
• ISBN13: 9780522847901
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Melbourne University
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.7"