Abstract
The present study examines child-directed speech (CDS) of a Slovak mother who intentionally alternates Slovak and English in communication with her two children in order to make them bilingual. It focuses on the occurrence of distinctive features of CDS in the two languages, and more particularly on the analysis of four contrastive aspects: euphemizing lexis, speech density, complexity, and fluency. The language samples recorded within the same time spans were transcribed and analyzed with the aim to discover the impact of L1 and L2 on the use of CDS. Results revealed substantial though not distinctly overwhelming superiority of the native language in all the given aspects and confirmed previous findings concerning qualitative differences between native and non-native speakers. However, they also showed that CDS maintains its distinctive features regardless of speaking a native or a non-native language, even though their quantity and quality might differ.
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