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Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael C. Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby S. Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz and Benjamin Wilson. 2020. “The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language ”. In How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, 370–387

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Pasquale Rinaldi and Laura Sparaci. 2020. “From action to spoken and signed language through gesture”. In How the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, 216–238

Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael C. Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby S. Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz and Benjamin Wilson. 2018. “The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language ”. In How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, 370–387

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Pasquale Rinaldi and Laura Sparaci. 2018. “From action to spoken and signed language through gesture”. In How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, 216–238

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, Pasquale Rinaldi and Laura Sparaci. 2017. “Developmental evidence for continuity from action to gesture to sign/word”. In The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, 13–41

Stefanini, Silvia, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra. 2011. “Naming with gestures  in children with typical development and with Down syndrome”. In Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans, 155–172

Gullberg, Marianne, Kees de Bot and Virginia Volterra. 2010. “Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development”. In Gestures in Language Development, 3–33

Tomasuolo, Elena, Laura Fellini, Alessio Di Renzo and Virginia Volterra. 2010. “Assessing lexical production in deaf signing children with the Boston Naming Test”. In Acquiring Sign Language as a First Language / Acquisition d’une langue des signes comme langue première, 110–128

Ardito, Barbara, Maria Cristina Caselli, Angela Vecchietti and Virginia Volterra. 2008. “Deaf and hearing children: Reading together in preschool”. In Sign Bilingualism: Language development, interaction, and maintenance in sign language contact situations, 137–164

Capirci, Olga and Virginia Volterra. 2008. “Gesture and speech”. In Dimensions of gesture, 22–44

Gullberg, Marianne, Kees de Bot and Virginia Volterra. 2008. “Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development”. In Gestures in language development, 149–179

Capirci, Olga, Annarita Contaldo, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra. 2007. “From action to language through gesture”. In Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, 139–159

Capirci, Olga, Annarita Contaldo, Maria Cristina Caselli and Virginia Volterra. 2005. “From action to language through gesture”. In Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, 155–177

Volterra, Virginia, Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli and Stefano Vicari. 2004. “Language in preschool Italian children withWilliams and Down syndromes”. In Williams Syndrome across Languages, 163–186

Antinoro Pizzuto, Elena, Emanuela Cameracanna, Serena Corazza and Virginia Volterra. 1995. “Terms for Spatio-Temporal Relations in Italian Sign Language”. In Iconicity in Language, 237

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