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Research Article

‘It’s the little bits that you have enabled me to see’. Reconceptualising the voices of babies using the video interaction dialogue model with early years educators

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Pages 606-625 | Received 23 Dec 2022, Accepted 08 Mar 2023, Published online: 29 Mar 2023

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