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Publication details [#36572]

Akhtar, Nameera, Frances Dunham and Philip J. Dunham. 1991. Directive interactions and early vocabulary development: The role of joint attentional focus. Journal of Child Language 18 (1) : 41–49.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

directive | language development1 | prescribing | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study distinguishes between lead and follow categories in maternal directiveness, arguing that prescriptives following the child's focus of attention can be beneficial to the child's subsequent vocabulary development.