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clark on gestures #69

Closed mcfrank closed 4 years ago

mcfrank commented 5 years ago

"To go back to Chapter 7, might it be worth distinguishing between symbolic gestures (most of those on the CDI) and deictic gestures (point, show) in early communications? With symbolic gestures, very young children are trying to convey some meaning, but with deictic gestures, they want the other to attend to whatever they are picking out."

Let's code categories of gestures in Ch7.