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Descriptive statistics of the three types of expansions by conversational type

Descriptive statistics of the three types of expansions by conversational type

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This study examined the distribution of language expansion in parent–child (preschool aged) mealtime conversations in 30 Chinese middle-class families. The conversations were categorised into four types: contextualised & conflicted, contextualised & non-conflicted, decontextualised & conflicted, and decontextualised & non-conflicted. The language e...

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... Table 6 shows the descriptive statistics of the three types of expansions by conversational type and by initiation. Altogether, there were 3,443 expanded messages in the total conversations. ...