Content or connectedness? Mother-child talk and early social understanding

Child Development

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 201-216

  Ensor, Rosie ^a   Hughes, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY TEST; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; SOCIALIZATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 38849085147     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01120.x     Document Type: Article

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