Communicating common ground: How mutually shared knowledge influences speech and gesture in a narrative task

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 267-289

  Holler, Judith ^a   Wilkin, Katie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NARRATIVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 59149095528     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802095545     Document Type: Article

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