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- Title
Words and gestures: Infants' interpretations of different forms of symbolic reference.
- Authors
Namy, Laura L.; Waxman, Sandra R.
- Abstract
Focuses on the extent to which infants distinquish between words and other types of symbols, and how the distinction between word-learning and other symbolic behaviors might change with development. Information on the introduction of object categorization between 18-and 26-month-olds; Findings of a study to see whether infants can learn novel symbolic gesters like novel words and names for object categories; Number of children who participated in the experiment.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S language; AGE factors in language acquisition
- Publication
Child Development, 1998, Vol 69, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0009-3920
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1132165