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Multimodal Communication Development

Multimodal Communication Development is a theoretical construct within early language development that encompasses the integrated use of verbal and nonverbal modalities—such as speech, gesture, facial expression, and body orientation—in the emergence and progression of communicative competence during infancy and early childhood.

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Newborn Infants Imitate Adult Facial Gestures

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Maggie Moore · Child Development · 1983 · 960 citations

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Newborn Infants Imitate Adult Facial Gestures

Andrew N. Meltzoff, Maggie Moore · Child Development · 1983 · 887 citations

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Neonate Movement Is Synchronized with Adult Speech: Interactional Participation and Language Acquisition

William Condon, Louis W. Sander · Science · 1974 · 723 citations

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Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture

Martha W. Alibali, Sotaro Kita, Amanda Young · Language and Cognitive Processes · 2000 · 609 citations · Full text

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Early Predictors of Communication Development in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Joint Attention, Imitation, and Toy Play

Karen Toth, Jeffrey Munson, Andrew N. Meltzoff et al. · Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders · 2006 · 566 citations

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  1. JM
    Jana M. Iverson

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    14 publications · 1.6K citations

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  2. SG
    Susan Goldin‐Meadow

    University of Chicago, United States

    9 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. MT
    Michael Tomasello

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    8 publications · 1.3K citations

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  4. VV
    Virginia Volterra

    Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italy

    8 publications · 879 citations

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  5. OC
    Olga Capirci

    National Research Council, Italy

    8 publications · 966 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    15 h-index

    44 publications

    5K citations

  2. University of Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    14 h-index

    25 publications

    3.5K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    11 h-index

    24 publications

    814 citations

  4. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

    Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    10 h-index

    15 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

    Rome, Italy

    9 h-index

    17 publications

    1.2K citations

  6. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    1.3K citations

  7. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    455 citations

  8. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    8 h-index

    15 publications

    1.6K citations

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  1. Journal of Child Language

    25 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

    23 publications · 3.5K citations

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  3. Child Development

    19 publications · 3.9K citations

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  4. Developmental Psychology

    22 publications · 1.9K citations

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  5. Gesture

    17 publications · 723 citations

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