Socialization of past event talk: Cultural differences in maternal elaborative reminiscing

Cognitive Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 142-154

  Tõugu, Pirko ^a   Tulviste, Tiia ^a   Schröder, Lisa ^b   Keller, Heidi ^b   De Geer, Boel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^c SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communicative styles; Cultural context; Elaborative style; Mother child reminiscing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955484369     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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