Two sources of meaning in infant communication: Preceding action contexts and act-accompanying characteristics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1651, 2014, Pages

  Liszkowski, Ulf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Common ground; Gesture; Markedness; Prelinguistic; Prosody; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; LANGUAGE; NEONATE; SIGNALING;

EID: 84905270401     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0294     Document Type: Review

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