X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children's early speech and gesture

Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 229-260

  Özçalişkan, Şeyda ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition of constructions; Development of similarity mapping ability; Early gesture; Early metaphor; Gesture speech combination; Language development; Similarity mapping; X is y like construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 85119313389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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