"Where does the child get those songs: Linguistic input and output under the microscope" The article discusses the qualitative and functional peculiarities of caregiver speech and child speech, the importance of the way in which children are spoken to, and whether input language has an important role in speech development. Also, an overview is provided of the nature and essential features of input language, presenting the similarities and differences between input and output and describing the ways in which different factors affect the way in which children are interacted with, including child-directed speech. As children acquire language in a speech community, with different social situations and with interlocutors whose language exhib...