Opportunity versus disposition as predictors of infants' and mothers' verbal and action imitation

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 303-314

  Flynn, Valerie ^a   Masur, Elise Frank ^b   Eichorst, Doreen L ^b  

^a AURORA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imitation; Mother infant interaction; Play; Verbal production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PLAY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 4644297311     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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