The effects of prohibiting gestures on children's lexical retrieval ability

Developmental Science

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 747-754

  Pine, Karen J ^a   Bird, Hannah ^a   Kirk, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH;

APTITUDE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; SPEECH; VOCABULARY;

EID: 35548982619     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00610.x     Document Type: Article

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