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Publication details [#6739]

Messer, David J. 1983. The redundancy between adult speech and nonverbal interaction: A contribution to acquisition? In Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, ed. The transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication. L. Erlbaum. pp. 147–165.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

comprehension, L1-acquisition of | non-verbal behavior | onset of verbal behavior | pre-verbal interaction

Annotation

M. argues that the bridge between nonverbal and verbal communication may be built by the infants' comprehension of speech from nonverbal information prior to and during the stage at which they begin to produce words.

Reviewed by

Garvey, Catherine. 1983. Text, context, and interaction in language acquisition. In Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick, ed. The transition from prelinguistic to linguistic communication. L. Erlbaum. pp. 191–202.