'Yow be the big sister': Maternal-preschooler internal state discourse, perspective-taking, and sibling caretaking

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-234

  Howe, Nina ^a   Rinaldi, Christina M ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caretaking; Discourse; Perspective taking; Siblings

Indexed keywords

EID: 10244232937     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.350     Document Type: Article

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