European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January we talking stage by Khz acid Raste new York times 1 when the argument Over Complex rules of be around them or i an innate mental was at least one researchers around the United to see just Bow much children did initial Atud Iea have shown conclusively that cell on their parents i about u majority of it turns Are finely Mir childrens level of language development it they do it even though they May be in t  anybody in they Ever talk taby talk or Tab downtown eur for the tint months of a baby patents tend to ramble on the first my w wit seem to Cut speech i Jot Tea Here Traad they Kef a to speak Vity mrs a Ipi a upe talking to a oneyear old child note that the parents speak a utterances sat if our each rather than Ali who use Many declarative sentences among switch to and commands when children Vytte pies you Are not intended to gain information but to be used a device for grabbing a Childs alien Amor As a kind of rhetorical tired a Mother might when Johnny has tar yawned for five i naturally there is Varia Tion from one adult to the variation matter pm theres not much evidence yet that it but parents who Tew More questions seem to end up with Zindren who the sophistication to use More Loo in the Fame Peculiar at eat Euan Newport at the two Sam Aad Kef colleagues owl t the me of question Man Tan commands seemed tanked in Aoa Lher Dement of Ungru Ife Newport found that parents who use More eur Liary verbs such As those required at the beginning of ques you Start to eat rather than Start to children who team to use them More giving greater nuance to sentences twill Burtlo at the same Newport and the others have not found that the complexity of a Childs sentence Bow Many and main verbs it affected by adult that appears to be More related to How fast the child is she she Laid that All this fit neatly into he argument Over environment and heredity the use of Aux Follary As Well As plurals and varies greatly from one language to and that where one would expect to see the Impact of the environment they  be built cd a Obaury b leaned Aad con help Muldre expand Etoen of Yak said that the highly educated Middle class Mother the stat then Wdiha a Titan Kosk to Lilam Aad to Betag May Puaa do parents Ever speak to children in that Are Dis advantageous parents have often heard that extreme baby really Saccharine harmful to but no evidence shows that except when its inappropriate to a Childs age and is then an embarrassing should parents Correct grammar and syntax Proba Bly toe Way a child constructs a sentence has a lot to do with the Childs level of in the actual course of such As Johnny and me Ore going to play May not become Johnny and 1 until Thech Dulo it is my said Charles Ferguson of that the important thing is net Gram if youre connected up with what the child is saying and the child understands you that what Prog Roger Brown of Harvard sees a potential danger in the state of the Art at the he said that it was easy to draw the conclusion that because most speak to their children in a particular Way that Way must be help he it was an unwarranted leap to advise Orente who do less of these who dont raise their for instance that they ought to Correct no authority knows enough yet to advise parents Todo yet Brown said he had seen lists of and and a and them whats Likely to he is that a Ambi Nous for the will undertake 16 do these things Deli but by doing that May throw off it much More finely turned mechanism of adjusting to the and the stabs and stripes Page w modern living mechanism might be working a lot better than thin Getse w reason it oe44k wok a Cufa Speed of aces Apiag it int dear that the rate a which one learns in glue has anything to do with adult be an a growth of the recent research has been wide leaped for the Way most Parenta seem tuned in to their and theres Ciao been a Tot of respect for be Lal Enta of Peter Elma and others at Brown have found that chit Dren As Young As a month old can already make Tine Dos fact lib Between they can Teh Jor the difference Between a b and a Bunas to come into the world Al ready Well prepared1 stuttering by Christopher Lehmann Haipt Mew York times a 1ccording to Gerald Jonass new slut tearing Straus As Many a n Muscles May be called into play during the production of a simple of each movement must come in exactly on think about that Long and hard and you May find that like the fabled Centipede you can no longer do what once came hots exactly what one of the More plausible theories of stuttering in the opinion of Wendell Johnson of the Iowa speech clinic sometime Between the Ages of i when the problem of stuttering typically the child in doubt that he can talk smoothly enough to please the people he talks mainly he Par enter be learns to fear what will happen if he Waal this to is that he learns to be afraid that be Wilt be tries to do anything and everything he can think of to talk instead of just he tries to w Jub a wigs of cum Tuiai Ana everyone Cam his stuttering then is Taat the stutterer does by trying not to As Jonas concludes his summary of the Iowa theory stuttering is social disease to the truest sense you get it Only because someone else says you have Yasda Apiag does it dear u Ibe mystery of May theories Mot for Jonas himself a stut Lerer who simply Tetrad to outgrow he head Lac Iowa approach u faintly de ing old fashioned common the whole appeared much less impressive than the individual this scepticism u just As for while Jonas never does come up with a More elegant he continues to investigate and describe the Many therapies that have been devised or and these must fill a Reader with wonder at the Quiriy iras of human As Well As with pleasure at the easy Grace with which Jonas in parts it though Freud expressed doubt that psychoanalysis could provide the key to unlocking the Tongue of the stut at least one of his followers argued that stutterers were fixated at the infantile stage of Oral for did not the compulsive repetition of lip and Tongue move ments represent a act of nursing at an imaginary nipple at the Ether extreme Ann Otth All attempts la identify us  bats of muttering have  prussian or gear a amid Johana Friedrich Doeff Rohach weat a tar As snip away at afflicted Peoples tongues of the been thai Statt Erlby Wai caused by the excessive Slae of their the tinkering continues although with consider ably More benign the behaviour its believe that stuttering is simply a and work to desensitize the victim to whatever social Stu Lions bring another school of therapists employs a feedback anum to help the stutterer to relearn the act of Jonas himself eventually discovered that he probably had stumbled on his own cure by Union a doubly taking up Legato the use of a Tow steady drone Between words that somehow helps to build a beachhead of fluent i could go on and on until you would be astonished at How much to packed into this Little most of which first appeared to the new yorker Lor which Jonas is a staff writer Speda Liebig in scientific he is now working on a Book on brain but let me lean u at u you have Ever doubted that la their lifetimes people achieve doth lot so marvelous As whal they achieve when they learn to talk then read Book Aad Dunaver what u is like not to be Ash to As the Young Turk pit whose letter asking for help concludes Jonass Book the fact is thai 1 have to do something about otherwise a Bullet through the head will do the thing please help me out of this Hells i cant stand it 1 dont want to be an outcast in