The role of adult-child play in language development
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
- Vol. 1980 (9) , 33-48
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219800905
Abstract
In pretend play, parents may teach children something about how to use language to structure the world.Keywords
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