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Peer reviewedKloth, Saskia; Janssen, Peggy; Kraaimaat, Floris; Brutten, Gene J. – Journal of Child Language, 1998
A study of 71 mothers interacting with their 2- to 5-year-old children analyzed structural organization and communicative function of their speech and identified three maternal communicative styles: non-intervening; explaining; and directing. Internal consistency of the three styles appeared to be both satisfactory and related to relevant child…
Descriptors: Child Language, Factor Analysis, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication
Peer reviewedBlake, Joanna; Fink, Robert – Journal of Child Language, 1987
Analysis of the babbling of five infants indicated that between 14 and 40 percent of utterances recurred in particular contexts with a greater than expected frequency, suggesting that babbling is not entirely random but contains consistent sound-meaning relationships that are not adult-modeled. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Connected Discourse, Distinctive Features (Language)
Peer reviewedHampson, June; Nelson, Katherine – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Videotapes of 45 subjects at 1;1 and 1;8 showed preexisting differences between mothers of earlier and later talkers as early as 1 year, 1 month. When the sample was divided according to stylistic preference at 1;8 (referential or expressive), associations between maternal language at 1;1 and mean length of utterance at 1;8 emerged only for the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Expressive Language, Individual Differences, Interpersonal Communication
