Is there a natural order for expressing semantic relations?

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 375-412

  Gershkoff Stowe, Lisa ^a   Goldin Medow, Susan ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Gesture; Language processing; Sentence structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTICS; TIME; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; NARRATION; NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036834936     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0285(02)00502-9     Document Type: Article

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