Gestural-vocal coordination: Longitudinal changes and predictive value on early lexical development

Gesture

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-39

  Murillo, Eva ^a   Belinchon, Mercedes ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Communicative development; First words; Gestures; Multimodal communication; Vocalizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866252943     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.12.1.02mur     Document Type: Article

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