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| Child Language | 1 |
| Games | 1 |
| Infants | 1 |
| Language Acquisition | 1 |
| Language Research | 1 |
| Mothers | 1 |
| Parent Child Relationship | 1 |
| Play | 1 |
| Psycholinguistics | 1 |
| Verbal Development | 1 |
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| Journal of Child Language | 1 |
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| Bruner, Jerome | 1 |
| Ratner, Nancy | 1 |
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Peer reviewedRatner, Nancy; Bruner, Jerome – Journal of Child Language, 1978
The nature of early games and how they might assist the infant in language acquisition were explored in a longitudinal study of two mother-infant dyads, using video-recordings of their free play. The analysis of appearance and disappearance games was particularly revealing. (EJS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Games, Infants, Language Acquisition
