How human infants deal with symbol grounding

Interaction Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-104

  Cowley, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agency; Distributed cognition; Distributed language; Early child development; Epigenetic robotics; Intersubjectivity; Language acquisition; Symbol grounding

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348980304     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.8.1.06cow     Document Type: Conference Paper

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