When size really matters: How a single semantic feature is represented in the speech and gesture modalities

Gesture

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-84

  Beattie, Geoffrey ^a   Shovelton, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communicative function; Imagistic gesture; Semantic feature

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646415181     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.6.1.04bea     Document Type: Article

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