The functions of maternal verbal responses to prelinguistic infants as predictors of early communicative and linguistic development

First Language

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 173-195

  Paavola, Leila ^a   Kunnari, Sari ^a   Moilanen, Irma ^a   Lehtihalmes, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Child directed speech; Early vocabulary; Individual differences; Intersubjectivity; Mother infant play; Prelinguistic communication; Symbolic play

Indexed keywords

EID: 27544491338     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723705050341     Document Type: Article

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