"This is a bad dog, you know...": Constructing shared meanings during sibling pretend play

Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 783-794

  Howe, Nina ^a   Petrakos, Hariclia ^a   Rinaldi, Christina M ^b   LeFebvre, Rachel ^c  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECREATION; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SIBLING RELATION;

AGE FACTORS; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NEGOTIATING; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; SEMANTICS; SIBLING RELATIONS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 23844456054     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2005.00877.x     Document Type: Review

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