Examples of imitation

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We tested a prediction derived from this hypothesis that concerned the relation between a component of joint attention and a specific form of imitation.
Our third and critical prediction was that sharing looks, and only sharing looks, would relate to imitation of self-0other orientation.
The latency for imitation measures were collected as a comparison for the latency to share measure.
Unfortunately, we do not know in detail how imitation develops in any species.
Whatever its ontogeny, imitation seems to be the basis of tradition in other species.
Target productions included any recognizable imitation of the target words or gestures introduced during the experimental session.
Timing of first imitation did not predict this language milestone.
Only one child spontaneously produced the durative aspect marker leh4 ; in imitation they collectively omitted it on five out of six occasions.
The role of imitation in the developing syntax of a blind child.
Furthermore, in an imitation task, it is possible to standardize the situation being described across participants.
Very few studies have employed imitation as a method for examining the relation between lexical and grammatical aspect in early child language.
In the current study we chose to use an imitation task to elicit responses from the children.
Since the sticker task occurred after each attempted imitation, it could not directly influence the child's inclusion of a subject for that sentence.
In particular, potentially important cases such as correlated groups of agents and learning by imitation are not permitted.
The theological argument is - buttressed by a distinction between "resemblance" (shibh) and "imitation" (tashabuh).
The - age before the 18th and 19th century "revivalist" ijtihad movements was accordingly viewed as marred by rigid and unthinking imitation.
Are market conditions irrelevant when hasty imitation is present?
As they observe, imitation is one of the most common features of human behavior, in general, and economic behavior, in particular.
Whole or partially unintelligible utterances, imitations, self-repetitions and routine utterances were not used in any of the analyses reported in this paper.
In addition, only spontaneously produced words were accepted for the analysis, and imitations were excluded.
Pointing gestures and responses, yes\o gestures and responses, imitations, unintelligible utterances, and utterances that included a participant that was not visible were excluded.
The beer and women, off-color imitations, radiate toxicity.
Where possible, full or partial repetitions or imitations were also excluded.
Excluded were incomplete or unclear utterances, imitations, self-repetitions, and routines (songs, counting sequences).
As we shall see, it spawned at least two imitations in the years following its representation.
There was no question of silly imitations of unworthy subjects, since the harmonica could imitate the one thing that was worth imitating: the human voice.
In short, most imitations were in fact immediate repeats of a term that had just been produced by the adult interlocutor.
Name the designer of the shoe that spawned millions of plastic imitations, known as "jellies".
Once a radically new product appears, a cluster of imitations often follows.
Ever since this foreign coin has attained wide currency domestic imitations have circulated along with foreign-minted coin.
What at first appear to be foreign products frequently turn out to be local imitations.
Twenty-five were uninterested in the game, produced too few attempted imitations, or lost interest during the 4 weeks of the experiment.
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