From index-finger extension to index-finger pointing: Ontogenesis of pointing in preverbal infants

Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 69-84

  Masataka, Nobuo ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84919566483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410607744     Document Type: Chapter

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