Gesture viewpoint in Japanese and English: Cross-linguistic interactions between two languages in one speaker

Gesture

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 256-276

  Brown, Amanda ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bi directional cross linguistic influence; Gesture viewpoint; Japanese; Motion events; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 49249112373     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.8.2.08bro     Document Type: Article

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