| Description |
xvi, 301 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Social Dance of American Family Life -- 2. Observing Children and Families Talking -- 3. A Social World -- 4. Developmental Change -- 5. Becoming Partners -- 6. Staying and Playing -- 7. Practicing -- 8. The Range Among Well-Functioning Families -- 9. Meaningful Differences -- 10. Talking as a Social Dance -- App. A. Child Vocabulary in 100 Utterances, 19-36 Months Old -- App. B. Steps in Describing the Social Dance -- App. C. Steps in Explicating the Social Dance |
| Summary |
Hart and Risley's unparalleled study took 1,300 hours over 2 1/2 years and involved 42 diverse families with young children. This book charts the month-by-month growth in children's vocabulary, utterances, and use of grammatical structures and describes the ambient conversation and changing patterns of parent-child interaction as the children's contribution to those exchanges increases. Supplementing this narrative are transcriptions from observed interactions and an extensive appendix listing more than 2,000 words of children's vocabulary from 11 to 36 months of age. Integrating children's practice with the language experience provided by their parents, this much-awaited volume reveals the pattern of the "social dance" of children learning to talk with their families |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211) and index |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Social interaction in children.
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| Author |
Risley, Todd R.
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| LC no. |
99013087 |
| ISBN |
155766420X |
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