Sociocultural settings influence the emergence of prelinguistic deictic gestures

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1296-1307

  Salomo, Dorothe ^a   Liszkowski, Ulf ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFANT; MALE; MEXICO; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHINA; CULTURE; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEXICO; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84877637522     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12026     Document Type: Article

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