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Publication details [#44972]

Benigno, John P. 2006. Three is not always a crowd: contexts of joint attention and language. Journal of Child Language 34 (1) : 175–187.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | first language acquisition | mother-child conversation | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study of (first language vocabulary growth in) mother-child communication argues that the number of interactants affects joint attention dynamics and that multi-child contexts can constitute positive language acquisition environments.