Joanna Blake
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joanna Blake plays a role.
Articles
2007 A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 183–197 | Article
The entire bodily gestural repertoire of four different infant groups was coded over the age period of 9 to 15 months. Two small samples of English-Canadian and Parisian-French infants were filmed every two weeks at home. A larger sample of Japanese infants was visited for 7 sessions and of… read more
2005 A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 201–217 | Article
The entire bodily gestural repertoire of four different infant groups was coded over the age period of 9 to 15 months. Two small samples of English-Canadian and Parisian-French infants were filmed every two weeks at home. A larger sample of Japanese infants was visited for 7 sessions and of… read more
1997 Are Communicative Gestures the Substrate of Language? Gestural Communication in Human and Non-Human Primates, Maestripieri, Dario and Jill P. Morford (eds.), pp. 261–282 | Article
The relationship between communicative gestures and language acquisition was investigated in 30 infants who were visited at home four times between 9 months and 3 years. At 9 and 15 months, they were videotaped in free play with their mothers, and their communicative gestures were coded from these… read more