Get by With a Little Help From a Word: Multimodal Input Facilitates 26-Month-Olds' Ability to Map and Generalize Arbitrary Gestural Labels

Journal of Cognition and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 250-269

  Wilbourn, Makeba Parramore ^a   Sims, Jacqueline Prince ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBJECT RELATION; PLAY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SIGN LANGUAGE; STIMULUS; SYMBOLISM; TRAINING; VERBAL MEMORY; VIDEORECORDING; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84877843668     PISSN: 15248372     EISSN: 15327647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2012.658930     Document Type: Article

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