The Roots of Narrative: Discussing Recent Events with Very Young Children.

Ninio, Anat

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Roots of Narrative: Discussing Recent Events with Very Young Children.

Ninio, Anat

Language Sciences, v10 n1 p35-52 1988

A longitudinal study of twenty-four (24) Hebrew-speaking mother-infant dyads during discussions of recent events indicated that mothers commented on a small set of events and tended to mark events with exclamations or formulaic expressions that gradually progressed to a true description of events as the children got older. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Hebrew, Infants, Language Patterns, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Oral Language, Parent Child Relationship

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