Skype Me! Socially Contingent Interactions Help Toddlers Learn Language

Child Development

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 956-970

  Roseberry, Sarah ^a   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^b   Golinkoff, Roberta M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; VIDEOCONFERENCING; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 84897628072     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12166     Document Type: Article

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