Early Action and Gesture "Vocabulary" and Its Relation With Word Comprehension and Production

Child Development

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 526-542

  Caselli, Maria Cristina ^a   Rinaldi, Pasquale ^a   Stefanini, Silvia ^b   Volterra, Virginia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECREATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84858162514     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01727.x     Document Type: Article

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