Early development of gestures, object-relatedactions, word comprehension and word production, and their relationships in Italian infants a longitudinal study

Gesture

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 52-85

  Sansavini, Alessandra ^a   Bello, Arianna ^b   Guarini, Annalisa ^a   Savini, Silvia ^a   Stefanini, Silvia ^b   Caselli, Maria Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early lexicon; Gender difference; Gestures; MacArthur Bates CDI; Object actions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958473968     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.10.1.04san     Document Type: Article

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