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Peer reviewedWelkowitz, Joan; And Others – Child Development, 1976
Tests the hypothesis that the extent to which the durations of pauses (silences within the utterances of a single speaker) and switching pauses (silences between the utterances of 2 speakers) in the speech of children in conversation become similar (i.e., exhibit conversational congruence) is positively related to age. (BRT)
Descriptors: Child Language, Developmental Psychology, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition
