“…Western mothers, for example, frequently test labels of objects (Heath, 1981(Heath, , 1983Holzman, 1972Holzman, , 1974Olsen-Fulero & Conforti, 1983;Schieffelin & Eisenberg, 1984;Shatz, 1978Shatz, ,1979Snow, 1978). In Papua, New Guinea, on the other hand, Kaluli adults do not ask children to label objects, but do expect them to answer questions naming their relatives (Schieffelin & Eisenberg, 1984).…”