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Publication details [#6703]

McTear, Michael F. 1984. Structure and process in children's conversational development. In Kuczaj, Stan A. II, ed. Discourse development: Progress in cognitive development research. Springer. pp. 37–76.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language deficiency | conversation, L1-acquisition of | conversational organization

Annotation

Critical analysis of approaches to the notion of conversational structure. Review of work on the development of conversation from early infancy to school age. And considerations on the application of this work to an understanding of some types of conversational disorder.