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Moerk, Ernst L. – 1975
This study focuses on the significance of specific maternal language teaching techniques in the early language development of the child. A recording was made of the verbal and nonverbal interactions in 20 mother-child dyads during a one-hour session in the home. The linguistic level for each of the children, who ranged from 1.9 to 5.0 years in…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Acquisition

Moerk, Ernst L. – Developmental Psychology, 1978
Dynamic aspects of maternal language instruction and first language learning were explored by observing one- to five-year-old middle-class children with their mothers. (CM)
Descriptors: Infants, Interaction Process Analysis, Language Instruction, Mothers