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Publication details [#39925]

Harkness, Sara. 1988. The cultural construction of semantic contingency in mother-child speech. Language Sciences 10 (1) : 53–67.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language input | mother-child conversation | semantics1

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper argues that an analysis of the cultural dimensions of mother-child interaction contributes to a fuller understanding of the link between language input and acquisition.