Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development

First Language

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-199

  Rowe, Meredith L ^a   Özçalişkan, Şeyda ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestures; Parent child interaction; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749142099     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707088310     Document Type: Article

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