Talking backward: exceptional speech play in late childhood Export

@article{citeulike:309451, abstract = {The game of 'talking backward', invented independently by two boys aged 8;10 and 9;11, is studied with reference to the role of speech play in linguistic, cognitive, and social development. Case reports from 27 adult backward talkers suggest a lower limit of about 7 years for the onset of this ability. The backward speech of the two children illustrateshow either phonology or orthography can be used as a basis for backward speech, and demonstrates the boys' knowledge of phonemic units and letter-to-sound correspondences. Talking backward belongs to a larger class of 'secret' language games that may be cognitively and pragmatically well suited to children of this age}, author = {Cowan, Nelson and Leavitt, Lewis A.}, citeulike-article-id = {309451}, journal = {Journal of Child Language}, keywords = {backwards, orthography, phonology}, pages = {481--495}, posted-at = {2005-09-01 00:51:05}, priority = {0}, title = {Talking backward: exceptional speech play in late childhood}, volume = {9}, year = {1980} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:309451 L3 - citeulike-article-id:309451 N2 - The game of 'talking backward', invented independently by two boys aged 8;10 and 9;11, is studied with reference to the role of speech play in linguistic, cognitive, and social development. Case reports from 27 adult backward talkers suggest a lower limit of about 7 years for the onset of this ability. The backward speech of the two children illustrateshow either phonology or orthography can be used as a basis for backward speech, and demonstrates the boys' knowledge of phonemic units and letter-to-sound correspondences. Talking backward belongs to a larger class of 'secret' language games that may be cognitively and pragmatically well suited to children of this age JF - Journal of Child Language EP - 495 TI - Talking backward: exceptional speech play in late childhood VL - 9 SP - 481 KW - backwards KW - orthography KW - phonology AU - Cowan, Nelson AU - Leavitt, Lewis PY - 1980/// ER -