Young Children's Conversations with Their Mothers and Fathers: Differences in Breakdown and Repair.

Tomasello, Michael; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ405429

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1990

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Young Children's Conversations with Their Mothers and Fathers: Differences in Breakdown and Repair.

Tomasello, Michael; And Others

Journal of Child Language, v17 n1 p115-30 Feb 1990

Compared the conversations of mothers and fathers with their children, focusing special attention on breakdown-repair sentences. It was found, overall, that children and secondary caregiver fathers experienced more communicative breakdowns than did children and primary caregiver mothers. (23 references) (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Problems, English, Fathers, Language Acquisition, Mothers, Oral Language, Parent Child Relationship

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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