Silvana Macdonald

List of John Benjamins publications for which Silvana Macdonald plays a role.

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Blake, Joanna, Esther Olshansky, Grace Vitale and Silvana Macdonald 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