How do preschoolers express cause in gesture and speech?

Cognitive Development

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 56-68

  Göksun, Tilbe ^a   Hirsh Pasek, Kathy ^a   Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal event components; Causal understanding; Gesture; Speech

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749108930     PISSN: 08852014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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