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9 - Fromgesture to word

from Part Two - Early developments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

By
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Edited by
Edith L. Bavin  and
Letitia R. Naigles
Edith L. Bavin
Affiliation:
La Trobe University, Victoria
Letitia R. Naigles
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut
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The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language , pp. 183 - 204
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003a). Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Goldin-Meadow, S. (2003b). The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children can tell us about how all Children Learn Language. New York: Psychology Press.Google Scholar
Iverson, J. M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (eds.). (1998). The Nature and Functions of Gesture in Children’s Communications (New Directions for Child Development, no. 79). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.Google Scholar
Kendon, A. (2004). Visible Action as Utterance. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McNeill, D. (1992). Hand in Mind. University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar

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