Nancy de Villiers Rader
List of John Benjamins publications in which Nancy de Villiers Rader is involved.
Articles
2012 How the hands control attention during early word learning Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 79–98 | Article
We have proposed that gestures play a significant role in directing infants’ attention during early word learning when caregivers synchronize the saying of a word with a dynamic gesture; this synchronization functions to bring sight and sound together, providing a basis for perceiving them as… read more
2010 How the hands control attention during early word learning Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 202–221 | Article
We have proposed that gestures play a significant role in directing infants’ attention during early word learning when caregivers synchronize the saying of a word with a dynamic gesture; this synchronization functions to bring sight and sound together, providing a basis for perceiving them as… read more

