'I like Barney': Preschoolers' spontaneous conversational initiations with peers

First Language

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 401-425

  O'Neill, Daniela K ^a   Main, Rebecca M ^a   Ziemski, Renata A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conversational initiations; Peer to peer conversation; Pragmatics; Preschoolers; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549106136     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723709105315     Document Type: Article

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