Do pointing gestures by infants provoke comments from adults?

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 562-567

  Kishimoto, Takeshi ^a   Shizawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Yasuda, Jun ^a   Hinobayashi, Toshihiko ^a   Minami, Tetsuhiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Infants; Language acquisition; Pointing gestures; Verbal responses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAFF; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 35348869862     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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