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Peer reviewedWilcox, M. Jeanne; Howse, Paula – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1982
A group of young children (17 to 24 months), although capable of semantically equivalent verbal behavior, tended to persist with gestures when experiencing communicative failure. The children may not have realized a verbal behavior can replace or enhance gestural communication. (MSE)
Descriptors: Body Language, Child Language, Communication Problems, Communication Research
