Co-speech gestures in a naming task: Developmental data

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 168-189

  Stefanini, Silvia ^a   Bello, Arianna ^a   Caselli, Maria Cristina ^b   Iverson, Jana ^c   Volterra, Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Gesture; Lexical abilities; Naming; Preschoolers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 59149097847     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802187755     Document Type: Article

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