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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
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0305-009

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.