The seeds of spatial grammar in the manual modality

Cognitive Science

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1029-1043

  So, Wing Chee ^a   Coppola, Marie ^a   Licciardello, Vincent ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Coreference; Gestures; Homesign; Language development; Resilient properties of language; Sign languages; Spatial grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645100568     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_38     Document Type: Article

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