Publications

Publication details [#36579]

Sorsby, Angela J. and Margaret Martlew. 1991. Representational demands in mothers' talk to preschool children in two contexts: Picture book reading and a modelling task. Journal of Child Language 18 (2) : 373–395.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

abstractness | context | motherese | representational structure, L1-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study compares the conversation in two mother-child dyads, one engaged on the task of joint picture book reading and one on the task of clown modelling using play-doh, for representational demand placed on the child, interactive characteristics and communicative function.