15-month-old infants fast map words but not representational gestures of multimodal labels

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue APR, 2012, Pages

  Puccini, Daniel ^a   Liszkowski, Ulf ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baby signs; Fast mapping; Infant communication; Multimodal; Representational gesture; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867138229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00101     Document Type: Article

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