A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language

Gesture

Volumn 5, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 201-217

  Blake, Joanna ^a   Vitale, Grace ^a   Osborne, Patricia ^a   Olshansky, Esther ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communicative gestures; Culture; Infants; Language

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248711049     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.5.1-2.14bla     Document Type: Article

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