Guiding language development: how African American mothers and their infants structure play interactions.

This investigation explored how African American mothers and their infants at the single-word stage of development structured their play and communicated with one another. Six mother-child dyads of low socioeconomic status (SES) and six of middle SES were observed at play. Few group differences were...

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Published in:	Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 1219 - 1234
Main Authors:	Hammer, Carol Scheffner, Weiss, Amy L.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Speech-Language-Hearing Association October 1999
Subjects:	Mother-child relationship Play Language acquisition Children's language
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