The role of context in mother-child interactions: An analysis of communicative intents expressed during toy play and book reading with 12-month-olds

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 435-454

  Yont, Kristine M ^a   Snow, Catherine E ^a   Vernon Feagans, Lynne ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversation; Language acquisition; Maternal input; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037364038     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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