Before Speech: The Beginning of Interpersonal Communication

by Margaret Bullowa

Long before they can make any sounds approaching language, infants can share in communication, though what this means is the subject of much scrutiny. This 1979 volume deliberately draws on people whose different backgrounds have brought them to explore questions that have a bearing on communication in this earliest phase of human infancy. This is, then, as Dr Bullowa says in her introduction, primarily a book about 'how scientists go about finding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052129522X
• ISBN13: 9780521295222
• Release Date: September 1979
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"