How to do things without words: Infants, utterance-activity and distributed cognition

Language Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 443-466

  Spurrett, David ^a   Cowley, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Andy; Ape language; Clark; Deacon; Distributed cognition; Language acquisition; Savage Rumbaugh; Sue; Symbols; Terrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042543368     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2003.09.008     Document Type: Article

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