The Time Is at Hand: The Development of Spatial Representations of Time in Children’s Speech and Gesture

Children achieve increasingly complex language milestones initially in gesture before they do so in speech. In this study, we ask whether gesture continues to be part of the language-learning process as children develop more abstract language skills, namely metaphors. More specifically, we focus on...

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Main Author: Stites, Lauren
Format: Others
Published: ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University 2016
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Online Access:http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/psych_diss/168
http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1176&context=psych_diss