The role of mothers and firstborn female siblings in teaching and encouraging language skills

Although mothers and siblings are prevalent sources of language for the learning child in Western cultures, their respective roles in influencing the rate or the course of language development have not been differentiated. Register analyses of siblings' speech have failed to discriminate betwee...

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Main Author: Thew, Carol
Language:English
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/22097