Language does something: Body action and language in maternal input to three-month-olds

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-128

  Nomikou, Iris ^a   Rohlfing, Katharina J ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic packaging; ecology of interactions; motherchild interaction; multimodal grounding in input; social learning; synchrony

Indexed keywords

BODY MOVEMENTS; CO-OCCURRENCE; INTERACTION TIME; MOTHERCHILD INTERACTION; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; NATURALISTIC STUDY; SOCIAL LEARNING; SYNCHRONY; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; VOCAL SIGNALS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 79959191297     PISSN: 19430604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAMD.2011.2140113     Document Type: Article

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