Symbolic Gesture versus Word: Is There a Modality Advantage for Onset of Symbol Use?

Child Development

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1993, Pages 688-701

  Goodwyn, Susan W ^a   Acredolo, Linda P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMAN; INFANT; LEARNING; MALE; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0027621061     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb02936.x     Document Type: Article

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