Children's lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language development

Gesture

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 251-278

  Grimminger, Angela ^a   Rohlfing, Katharina J ^a   Stenneken, Prisca ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gestural motherese; Late Talker; Maternal multimodal input; Taskoriented dialogue

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952151612     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.10.2-3.07gri     Document Type: Article

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