Ostension : word learning and the embodied mind /
"Ostension is bodily movement that manifests our engagement with things, whether we wish it to or not. Gestures, glances, facial expressions: all betray our interest in something. Ostension enables our first word learning, providing infants with a prelinguistic way to grasp the meaning of words...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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