Mothers respond differently to infants' gestural versus nongestural communicative bids

First Language

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 372-387

  Olson, Janet ^a   Masur, Elise Frank ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; infant communication; internal state; labels; mother infant interaction; responses to gesture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880861069     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723713493346     Document Type: Article

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