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Moerk, Ernst L. – 1985
This investigation addresses problems of defining verbal imitation, and suggests solutions by analyzing verbal interactions between two children and their mothers. Children were between 18 and 35 months old, with a mean length of utterance between 1.4 and 4.2 morphemes. Analyses focus upon the uses these children made of maternal models; 10…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Child Language, Cognitive Processes
