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Burquest, Donald A., Jane B. Childers and Julie Vaughan. 2007. Joint attention and word learning in Ngas-speaking toddlers in Nigeria. Journal of Child Language 34 (2) : 199–225.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

joint narration | language acquisition | language and culture | toddler | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Ngas

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

An analysis of the interrelations of joint attention behavior and language development in Ngas-speaking toddlers in rural Nigeria, demonstrates that joint attention behaviors are linked to both noun and verb acquisition at different times.