Assisted imitation: First steps in the seed model of language development

Language Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 569-582

  Zukow Goldring, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances and bodily abilities; Assisted imitation; Educating attention; Gesture; Infancy; SEED model of early language development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862312570     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2012.03.012     Document Type: Article

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