The development of communicative competence : the ontogenesis of joint co-ordinated interaction between mother and infant.

An analysis of mother-infant interaction during the preverbal period has revealed the importance of gaze in establishing the phatic channel and in the development of an intersubjectivity between them. Before the infant starts speaking there are behavioural indices of intersubjectivity - this enables...

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Main Author: Krige, Penelope D.
Other Authors: Albino, R. C.
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/7313