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Publication details [#8795]
Shatz, Marilyn. 1978. The relationship between cognitive processes and the development of communication skills. In Keasey, Charles Blake, ed. Nebraska symposium on motivation, 1977. University of Nebraska Press. pp. 1–42.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
It is argued that traditional views and explanations of children's abilities are inadequate to the task of accounting for both the success and the failures of child communication. Instead a more comprehensive view of the development of children's communicative skills is proposed, drawing on notions from adult information processing literature.