Why Talk about Mental States? The Significance of Children's Conversations with Friends, Siblings, and Mothers

Child Development

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 836-849

  Brown, Jane R ^a   Donelan McCall, Nancy ^b   Dunn, Judy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PEER GROUP; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIBLING RELATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PEER GROUP; SIBLING RELATIONS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0030300508     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01767.x     Document Type: Article

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