A Prelinguistic Gestural Universal of Human Communication

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 698-713

  Liszkowski, Ulf ^a,b   Brown, Penny ^c   Callaghan, Tara ^d   Takada, Akira ^e   de Vos, Conny ^c  

^a Max Planck Research Group Communication Before Language   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caregiver infant interaction; Cross cultural; Deictic; Infant communication; Pointing; Social development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAREGIVER; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CUES; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS;

EID: 84860580133     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01228.x     Document Type: Article

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