Comprehension of Novel Communicative Signs by Apes and Human Children

Child Development

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1067-1080

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Call, Josep ^a   Gluckman, Andrea ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHROPOIDEA; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ORIENTATION; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0031305496     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1997.tb01985.x     Document Type: Article

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