“Does that mean ‘no'?”: Negotiating proto‐conversation in infant‐caregiver pairsFootnote∗

A previous draft of this paper was presented at the Speech Communication Association convention, Chicago, November, 1986. The author would like to express her gratitude to Wayne Beach, Pamela Benoit, and several anonymous reviewers.

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