A comparison of the gestural communication of apes and human infants;

Human Development

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 7-24

  Tomasello, Michael ^a   Camaioni, Luigia ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Gestures; Language; Social cognition; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345814774     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: 14230054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000278540     Document Type: Article

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