Tapping toddlers' evolving semantic representation via gesture

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 732-745

  Capone, Nina C ^a  

^a SETON HALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Semantic learning; Toddlers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH; TODDLER; VISUAL MEMORY; COGNITION; FEMALE; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 34547479848     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/051)     Document Type: Article

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