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Peer reviewedLawrence, Barbara M. – Child Development, 1984
Significant relationships were found between linguistic maturity of children, speech of parents, and children's helping behavior. Mean length of utterance was a better predictor of cooperative behavior than child age; no comparable relationships were found for parents' nonverbal behaviors. Results support a hypothesis of verbal mediation of…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Context Effect, Cooperation, Helping Relationship
Austin, Ann M. Berghout; And Others – 1985
The purpose of this study was to measure fathers' and mothers' linguistic involvements with the development of communication between young siblings. A total of 39 2-parent families with 2 children were videotaped in semi-structured activities in a laboratory setting. The older sibling was from 18- to 26-months-old and the younger was from 4- to…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Fathers, Infants
