Patterns in parent-child conversations about animals at a marine science center

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 155-171

  Rigney, Jennifer C ^a   Callanan, Maureen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animate and inanimate pronouns; Naive biology; Parent child conversations; Social context of cognitive development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955466407     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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