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Action as developmental process – a commentary on Iverson's ‘Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 January 2010

LINDA B. SMITH
LINDA B. SMITH*
Affiliation:
Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
*
[*]Address for correspondence: Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, 1101 East 10th Street, Bloomington IN 47405.
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , March 2010 , pp. 263 - 267
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