The medium is the message: Pictures and objects evoke distinct conceptual relations in parent-child conversations

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 50-78

  Ware, Elizabeth A ^a   Gelman, Susan A ^b   Kleinberg, Felicia ^b  

^a VITERBO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center   (United States)

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EID: 84873639033     PISSN: 0272930X     EISSN: 15350266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.59.1.0050     Document Type: Article

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