Sociocultural influences on the development of verbal mediation: Private speech and phonological recoding in Saudi Arabian and British samples

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 117-131

  Al Namlah, Abdulrahman S ^a,b   Fernyhough, Charles ^a   Meins, Elizabeth ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AL IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY IMSIU   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cross national comparisons; Gender; Phonological receding; Private speech; Verbal mediation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL; SPEECH; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NEGOTIATING; PHONETICS; PRIVATE SECTOR; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOLS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 31644451952     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.42.1.117     Document Type: Article

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