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<font size=3>Greetings,<br><br>
Among the many other sources being suggested, I recommend the special
issue of <i>Journal of Nonverbal Behavior</i> that I edited in 2000 (vol.
24, no. 2). It is devoted to gesture and development, and has 5
articles of original work. Several of these will be of interest to
you.<br><br>
Be of good cheer,<br>
Chris Boyatzis <br><br>
At 07:15 PM 1/8/2005 +0000, Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I have been asked to find out what
serious sceintific studies have been done on the effects of teaching
hearing infants to use "signs" (I am not talking about the real
language, ASL or BSL, but a list of lexical signs taught to "advance
infant communication skills" before they are able to
vocalise).<br><br>
I'd appreciate refs, abstracts of refs, of scientific studies, as well as
any personal experiences.<br>
Rather urgent please.<br>
Many thanks, and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL,<br>
Annette K-S<br>
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Chris J. Boyatzis, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor of Psychology<br>
Department of Psychology<br>
Bucknell University<br>
Lewisburg PA 17837<br><br>
Office phone: 570.577.1696<br>
FAX 570.577.7007<br>
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