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Publication details [#13200]

Camaioni, Luigia. 1993. The social construction of meaning in early infant-parent and infant-peer relations. In Nadel, Jacqueline and Luigia Camaioni, eds. New perspectives in early communicative development. Routledge. pp. 159–170.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

child-child conversation | meaning, processing of | mother-child conversation | toddler

Annotation

Treating meaning acquisition as a socially mediated process, the author proposes to compare the evolution and characteristics of infant-parent and infant-peer interactions in the first two years of life, focusing on characteristics that might account for the gradual shift from communication by action to communication by symbol.