Toddlers' persistence when communication fails: Response motivation and goal substitution

First Language

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-69

  Fagan, Mary K ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication failure; Communicative breakdown; Conversational repair behaviors; Goal substitution; Parent child interaction; Single word requests

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249136391     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707083280     Document Type: Article

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