Looking for an explanation for the low sign span. Is order involved?

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-107

  Gozzi, Marta ^a   Geraci, Carlo ^a   Cecchetto, Carlo ^a   Perugini, Marco ^a   Papagno, Costanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE;

ADULT; COGNITION; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; SERIAL LEARNING; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 78650311679     PISSN: 10814159     EISSN: 14657325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/deafed/enq035     Document Type: Article

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