Individual Differences in Preschool Children's Production of Verbal Fantasy Play.

By P. Olszewski. 1987

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Distinguishing One’s Own Voice from Those of Others: A Function for Private Speech? (1997, background): “…for private speech include emotional expression and role play (Fuson, 1979); language practice (Saville-Troike, 1988; Weir, 1962); practice for communicative encounters (Olszewski, 1987; Rubin, 1982); and establishing the meaning of one’s activity for oneself (Kohlberg, Yaeger, & Hjertholm, 1968).”
Private speech in preschool children: developmental stability and change, across-task consistency, and relations with classroom behaviour (2003, background): “Olszewski (1987) examined the stability and correlates of individual differences in one specific type of young children’s self-talk, verbal fantasy play, and found high stability across occasions in the quantity of imaginative verbal play produced by children.”