Effects of Visibility between Speaker and Listener on Gesture Production: Some Gestures Are Meant to Be Seen

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 169-188

  Alibali, Martha W ^a   Heath, Dana C ^a   Myers, Heather J ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Context; Gesture; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035242147     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2752     Document Type: Article

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