The natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 27, 2008, Pages 9163-9168

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   So, Wing Chee ^b   Özyürek, Asli ^c,d,e   Mylander, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^e KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Gesture; Language genesis; Sign language; Word order

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH;

ADULT; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 48249134778     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710060105     Document Type: Article

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