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Infants’ imitation has been an important focus not only of language developmentalists, but also of researchers concerned with infants’ cognitive (e.g.,McCall, 1979;Piaget, 1962; Uigiris, 1981) and social (Baldwin, 1895;Pawlby, 1977; Uigiris, 1981, 1984) development. In fact, two competing views of the function of imitation in language development are derived from the contrasting cognitive and social approaches to imitation.
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Masur, E.F. (1989). Individual and Dyadic Patterns of Imitation: Cognitive and Social Aspects. In: Speidel, G.E., Nelson, K.E. (eds) The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 24. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1011-5_3
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