Introduction to special issue: Gestures and communicative development

First Language

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 107-115

  Guidetti, Michèle ^a   Nicoladis, Elena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gestures; Iconic representation; Nonverbal communication; Origins of language; Prelinguistic communication; Speech gesture system

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749126669     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723708088914     Document Type: Article

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