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Peer reviewedHowe, Nina; Petrakos, Harriet; Rinaldi, Christina M. – Child Development, 1998
Compared pretend play enactment, negotiation, internal state language, and sibling relationship quality in 40 kindergartners with older or younger siblings. Found that frequent pretend play dyads used more high-level negotiation and internal state language than infrequent pretend dyads. Friendly relationship quality was negatively related to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Kindergarten Children, Language Usage, Play
Peer reviewedFurrow, David – Child Development, 1984
Compares social and private uses of language in 12 children 23 to 25 months of age. Based on videotapes of children's free play with an adult, results showed that regulatory, attentional, and informative uses of language appeared in speech addressed to another, while self-regulation, description of one's own activity, and expressive functions…
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Infants, Language Usage
