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Peer reviewedWelkowitz, Joan; And Others – Language and Speech, 1984
Examines the conversational behavior of eight-year-old Hawaiian boys and girls of either Caucasian or Japanese descent in same ethnic and same-gender pairs or in mixed-ethnic and/or mixed-gender pairs. Results suggest that temporal speech patterns are stable characteristics of children's vocal behavior, and that these conversational rhythms vary…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness, Ethnicity
