Children's private speech : an overview of theory and the status of research / Laura E. Berk -- Methodological concerns in the study of private speech / Rafael M. Diaz -- The relation between private speech and parental interactive style / Douglas A. Behrend, Karl S. Rosengren, and Marion Perlmutter -- Expertise, private speech, and the development of self-regulation / Margarita Azmitia -- Social origins of private speech in pretend play / Francine Smolucha -- Developmental trends in the differentiation of social and private speech / David Furrow -- The representation of private speech in children's literature / Jennifer A. Bivens and Fran Hagstrom -- Development of the syntactic and discourse structures of private speech / Peter Feigenbaum -- The functional differentiation of social and private speech : a dialogic approach / Juan D. Ramirez.

The problem of abbreviation and internalization of private speech / Paul P. Goudena -- Structural properties of verbal commands and their effects on the regulation of motor behavior / David J. Skotko -- Egocentrism in children's telephone conversations / Amye Richelle Warren and Carol Satterfield Tate -- Assessment of private and inner speech of older adults in relation to depression / Prem S. Fry -- Private speech among adults / Vera John-Steiner.