Using the hands to identify who does what to whom: Gesture and speech go hand-in-hand

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-125

  So, Wing Chee ^a,b   Kita, Sotaro ^c   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication; Discourse; Gesture; Referential expression

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950707591     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01006.x     Document Type: Article

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