Infant pointing at 12 months: Communicative goals, motives, and social-cognitive abilities

Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 153-178

  Liszkowski, Ulf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

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