The Social World of Children Learning to Talk

by Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley

Book Overview

This fascinating companion to the award-winning Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children reveals how daily child-parent social interactions govern children's language and social development. Based on unparalled data from 2-1/2 years of observing the everyday interactions of 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, Hart and Risley have charted the month-by-month growth of the children's vocabulary,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155766420X
• ISBN13: 9781557664204
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"