Sensitive Caregiving Fosters the Comprehension of Speech: When Gestures Speak Louder than Words

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 195-211

  Zukow Goldring, Patricia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological realism; Gesture; Infant speech comprehension; Sensitive caregiving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347692796     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0917(199612)5:4<195::aid-edp133>3.0.co;2-h     Document Type: Article

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