Contextual variation in maternal conversational styles

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 200-227

  Haden, Catherine A ^a   Fivush, Robyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

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