Language as gesture

Human Movement Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 556-565

  Corballis, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Evolution; Gesture; Language; Mirror neurons; Sign language; Speech

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GESTURE; HANDWRITING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMMUNICATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; GESTURES; HAND; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LARYNX; LIP; MOTIVATION; PALATE, SOFT; PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE; VOICE;

EID: 70349112620     PISSN: 01679457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humov.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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