Publications

Publication details [#50022]

Farrar, Michael Jeffrey, Joann P. Benigno and Laura Clark. 2007. 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

context | joint narration | language acquisition | mother-child conversation | vocabulary growth

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The findings of this study suggest that the number of social partners in joint attention contexts, in casu in mother-preschool child and mother–preschool child–sibling contexts, affects joint anttention dynamics and that multi-child contexts can constitute positive language acquisition environments.