Do French-English bilingual children gesture more than monolingual children?

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 573-585

  Nicoladis, Elena ^a   Pika, Simone ^b   Marentette, Paula ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingual first language acquisition; Bilingualism; Cross linguistic transfer; Gestures; Preschoolers; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NARRATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS;

EID: 70350354903     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-009-9121-7     Document Type: Article

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