Motoric characteristics of representational gestures produced by young children in a naming task

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 887-911

  Pettenati, Paola ^a   Stefanini, Silvia ^a   Volterra, Virginia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS; SIGN LANGUAGE; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78649920750     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000909990092     Document Type: Article

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