A Social Interactionist Account of Developing Decontextualized Narrative Skill.

Investigated the role of parental interaction styles on children's developing skill at providing contextual orientation in personal experience narratives. Eighteen monthly narratives were elicited from toddlers. The children's increasing skill at independently providing context about when and where was correlated with mothers' frequency of using specific types of prompts in their narratives when the children were older than three. (WP)