The Origins and growth of communication / Lynne Feagans, Catherine Garvey, Roberta Golinkoff with Mark T. Greenberg, Carol Harding, and John N. Bohannon. - Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Pub. Corp., c1984. - xix, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

The perceptual and affective salience of mothers' speech to infants / Anne Fernald -- Assessing significance in early dyadic interactions: a comparative perspective / David V. Baldwin -- Social and linguistic perception in infancy: factors related to the development of communication / Cynthia L. Miller -- The role of temporal cues in the development of language and communication / Cynthia L. Miller and Joseph M. Byrne. Development of the intention to communicate: the eye of the beholder / Richard Scoville -- Acting with intention: a framework for examining the development of the intention to communiacte / Carol Harding -- Interaction, engagement, and the origins and growth of communication: some constructive concerns / Alan Hayes -- Criteria for the emergence of symbolic conduct: when words refer and play is symbolic / Patricia G. Zukow -- Do children say as they're told? A new perspective on motherese / John N. Bohannon and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek -- Functions of speech in mother-infant interaction / Anat Ninio and Polly Wheeler -- Pragmatics and social interaction: the unrealized nexus / Mark T. Greenberg -- The relation between concept formation and semantic roles: some evidence from the blind / Anne Dunlea. Referential communication: why do preschoolers confuse quantity with quality? / Susan Sonnenschein -- Knowledge and language: children's ability to use and communicate what they know about everyday experience / Ann J. Pace and Lynne Feagans -- Children's awareness of communication / Peter Lloyd, Elaine Baker and Judy Dunn -- The ontogeny of description / Mary Ann Evans and Thomas H. Carr. Methodological afterword: from protoaskers to panaskers / Roger Bakeman -- Rejoinder / Catherine Snow.

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Communication--Psychological aspects--Congresses.
Interpersonal communication--Congresses.
Infant psychology--Congresses.
Children--Language--Congresses.
Child development--Congresses.
Conversation--Congresses.