Maternal gestures with 20-month-old infants in two contexts

Developmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 352-359

  O'Neill, Maria ^a,b   Bard, Kim A ^a   Linnell, Maggie ^a   Fluck, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; REVIEW; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEORECORDING;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 22144442462     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.00423.x     Document Type: Review

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