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Reminiscing with Different Children: Relating Maternal Stylistic Consistency and Sibling Similarity in Talk about the Past.

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Haden, Catherine A. – Developmental Psychology, 1998

Explored patterns of consistency and change in maternal reminiscing style across conversations with different young children in the same family. Found that mothers evidenced striking stylistic consistency. Mothers' use of a stylistic dimension with one child predicted her use of the same dimension with the other child, above the variance accounted…

Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Family Environment, Mothers

The Social Construction of Personal Narratives.

Peer reviewed

Fivush, Robyn – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991

Mothers' ways of structuring conversations about past events are related to children's abilities to structure personal narratives. When mothers provided temporally complex and informationally dense narratives about the past to their 2 1/2-year olds, the children recounted similar accounts a year later. (Author/BB)

Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Structures