Mothers' Responses to Infants' Object-Related Gestures: Influences on Lexical Development.

Masur, Elise Frank

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Publication Date: 1982-Feb

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Mothers' Responses to Infants' Object-Related Gestures: Influences on Lexical Development.

Masur, Elise Frank

Journal of Child Language, v9 n1 p23-30 Feb 1982

Mothers were found to respond differentially to their infants' object-related gestures. Pointing was found to have an especially strong correlation with mothers' object-labelling responses, which in turn were predictive of the child's object-naming vocabulary. (Author/JB)

Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Mothers, Nouns, Parent Child Relationship, Psycholinguistics, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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