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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Main Author:	Engelland, Chad (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Language awareness. Language acquisition. Neurophysiology. Psycholinguistics. PHILOSOPHY/General LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGE/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book