Mothers' internal state language to toddlers*

The Interpersonal World of the Infant

1985 • 4,381 citations

A First Language: The Early Stages

1974 • 4,299 citations

Play, dreams and imitation in childhood

1951 • 3,818 citations

The Acquisition of Performatives Prior to Speech.

1975 • 1,264 citations

Talking about internal states: The acquisition of an explicit theory of mind.

1982 • 935 citations

Social competence as a developmental construct

1983 • 755 citations

The acquisition of mental verbs: A systematic investigation of the first reference to mental state

1983 • 741 citations

Conversations about feeling states between mothers and their young children.

1987 • 608 citations

Child Rearing and Children's Prosocial Initiations toward Victims of Distress

1979 • 524 citations

Child Effects on Adults

2020 • 434 citations

Temperament in Early Childhood

1977 • 423 citations

Symbolic play : the development of social understanding

1984 • 272 citations

Acquisition of emotion-descriptive language: Receptive and productive vocabulary norms for ages 18 months to 6 years.

1985 • 215 citations

A Developmental Sequence of Agent Use in Late Infancy

1977 • 204 citations

The Socialization of Emotions

1985 • 187 citations

Early maternal linguistic environment of normal and Down's syndrome language-learning children.

1974 • 129 citations

Maternal speech to prelinguistic children with Down syndrome.

1985 • 89 citations

Early vocabulary acquisition by children with Down syndrome.

1985 • 87 citations

Verbal and nonverbal interaction of mothers with their down's syndrome and nonretarded infants.

1978 • 86 citations

Emotional responses of Down syndrome and normal infants in the Strange Situation: The organization of affective behavior in infants.

1985 • 70 citations

Perspectives on an integrated theory of emotional development

1982 • 63 citations

Consistency in the pattern of change in mothers' speech: some discriminant analyses

1980 • 40 citations

Natural language and the development of the self.

1977 • 12 citations

The socialization of emotional pathology in infancy

1984 • 8 citations

Structure and style of free play behavior in Down Syndrome (DS) and nonhandicapped children

1984 • 2 citations

Internal State Words: Cultural and Situational Variation in Vocabulary Usage. Technical Report No. 115.

1979 • 2 citations

Miffy in the Snow

1964 • 1 citations