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Publication details [#36554]
Tomasello, Michael, Gina Conti-Ramsden and Barbara Ewert. 1990. Young children's conversations with their mothers and fathers: Differences in breakdown and repair. Journal of Child Language 17 (1) : 115–130.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0305-009
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study compares communication breakdown and repair sequences in conversations of mothers and fathers with their children. The results, showing more frequent breakdowns in secondary caregiver father-child conversations, are considered to support the Bridge Hypothesis on fathers confronting children with communicative challenges, to help prepare them for interaction with less familiar adults.