Pointing and naming are not redundant: Children use gesture to modify nouns before they modify nouns in speech

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1660-1666

  Cartmil, Erica A ^a   Hunsicker, Dea ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Determiner; Language development; Multimodal; Noun phrase; Syntax

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NAMES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 84901627679     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0036003     Document Type: Article

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