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Peer reviewedElmslie, Tom J.; Brooke, John D. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1982
Investigates a wide range of communicative hand/arm gestures of four-year-old males interacting with their mothers. One trained observer coded videotaped behavior for the incidence of "deictic,""pantomimic," and "semantic-modifying and relational" hand or arm gestures. Results are viewed as demonstrating the link…
Descriptors: Body Language, Communication Research, Foreign Countries, Mothers
