Developmental Psychology · 1992 · 86 citations · 24 references
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Individual differences in mother's tendencies to describe aspects of the environment occupying their infant's current focus of attention were measured during interactions with their 13-month-old infants. The frequency of these current maternal utterances was then correlated with measures of their infants' productive lexical development at 13 and 24 months of age
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Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language
Jerome S. Bruner · Child Language Teaching and Therapy · 1985 · 2.1K citations