Crib talk

Crib talk or crib speech is pre-sleep monologue made by young children while in bed. This starts somewhere around one-and-a-half years and usually ends by about two-and-a-half years of age, though children can continue longer. It consists of conversational discourse with turn-taking often containing semantically and syntactically coherent question-answer sequences. It may contain word play and bits of song and nursery rhyme.Step on the blanketWhere is Anthony’s blanketWhere is Anthony’s blanket (falsetto)Where’s hiding (falsetto)BooksDownDownHave the books todayI take the white blanket offOn the blanketUnder the blanketSleep goWhat a blue blanketWhat the take the blanket:126The broke, car broke, the ..Emmy can’t go in the car.Go in green car.No.Emmy go in the car.Broken. Broken.Their car broken, so Mommy Daddy go in their car,Emmy Daddy go in the car,Emmy Daddy Mommy go in the car,broke,Da … da,the car … their, their, care broken (continues) .When mormor get me,when Mormor mae pretty,Mommy had a help, my sleep,Mommy came and Mommy get, get up, time to go home.When my slep and, and, Mormor came.Then Mommy coming then get up, time to go ho-o-me.Time to go home.Drink p-water .Yesterday did that.Now Emmy sleeping in regular bed.So—here I am in the dark alone,    There's nobody here to see;        I think to myself,        I play to myself,    And nobody knows what I say to myself;Here I am in the dark alone,    What is it going to be?I can think whatever I like to think,I can play whatever I like to play,I can laugh whatever I like to laugh,    There's nobody here but me.I'm talking to a rabbit ...    I'm talking to the sun ...I think I am a hundred—    I'm one.I'm lying in a forest ...    I'm lying in a cave ...I'm talking to a Dragon ...    I'm BRAVE.I'm lying on my left side ...    I'm lying on my right ...I'll play a lot tomorrow ...    ...........I'll think a lot tomorrow ...    ...........I'll laugh ...                a lot ...                            tomorrow ...                            (Heigh-ho !)                                                    Goodnight Crib talk or crib speech is pre-sleep monologue made by young children while in bed. This starts somewhere around one-and-a-half years and usually ends by about two-and-a-half years of age, though children can continue longer. It consists of conversational discourse with turn-taking often containing semantically and syntactically coherent question-answer sequences. It may contain word play and bits of song and nursery rhyme. Crib talk has been found in deaf children in their early sign language. It also occurs in autistic children. Crib talk has been divided into three somewhat overlapping varieties. This occurs most commonly in early monologues and is done in a low tone. It concerns using language to bring about action and occurs when playing with toys and dolls as “friends” with language embedded in ongoing play. Whilst like conversational speech, it can occur in long uninterrupted sequences in which the child describes what they are doing. In this a child creates a story about events that have happened or imaginary events in temporal-causal sequences that can be as short as five words or as long as 150. They may include the reciting of stories that have been read to them. They occur throughout the period in which a child engages in crib talk. These concern what happened in the past, what will happen in the future and how events are organized. They incorporate descriptions used by others to enable prediction. Such monologues have been argued to play a key role in providing a practice space for developing complex connected discourse, aiding a child to use language as a tool to categorize, explain and know the world, and to “clarify what may originally have been problematic or troublesome”. Such talk is more complex than that done by children in interactions with others, and this has been suggested to be due to the freedom to control what they say and so not have their cognitive abilities stretched by having to work out how to respond to what someone has just said. While similar to private speech which usually starts after 3 and ends about 7, crib talk lacks its self-regulatory instructions.:17–19