TY - JOUR
AU - Ogino, Misako
AB - The present study compared American and Japanese toddlers and their mothers ondimensions of language and play when the toddlers were 13 months of age. In bothcultures and in both domains, individual variation in toddlers was associated withindividual variation in mothers. In general, the frequency and variance of languageand play activities were similar in the two groups. However, two notable culturaldifferences emerged. American toddlers were more advanced in both their productiveand receptive vocabularies, and this cultural difference was matched by the tendencyfor American mothers to label and desciibe properties, objects, and events in theenvironment more frequently. In contrast, Japanese toddlers were more advanced onsymbolic play, and their advanced play was matched by more advanced play in Japanesemothers, particularly for "other-directed" acts of pretence. These findings suggestthat during this early period of symbolic development, as expressed through languageand play, American and Japanese dyads emphasise different modes of representationand do so in ways that accord with traditional cultural concerns.
TI - Language and Play at One Year: A Comparison of Toddlers and Mothers in the United States and Japan
JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development
DO - 10.1177/016502549201500102
DA - 1992-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/language-and-play-at-one-year-a-comparison-of-toddlers-and-mothers-in-082eBxuePD
SP - 19
EP - 42
VL - 15
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -