Cross-cultural transfer in gesture frequency in Chinese-English bilinguals

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1335-1353

  So, Wing Chee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cross cultural transfer; Representational gesture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGAPORE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78649723937     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690961003694268     Document Type: Article

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