Parametric Patterns and Contextual Dynamics in Child Vloggers' Urdu Speech: A Study of Spontaneity and Structure

Abstract

The main objective of present research is to provide analysis in the context of heterogeneous and media-influenced speech communities and its role in the substantiation of the parameters of the language of exposure. The premise of the research is to examine that in situations where the children are motivated to speak, what parametric and structural patterns emerge in the speech of 5-6 years of age. Though the children speech on social media is generally assumed to be scripted but an overview of child vloggers speech reveals that it is spontaneous, developmental and creative. Taking a sample of two child-vloggers’ speech, this research aims to explore the parametric patterns of Urdu these children exhibit in their output to the mediated environment. The research concludes that in formal setting of social media public-speaking platforms, children are eloquent and they significantly exhibit a range of syntactical structures of their language of exposure.