Bilingual children's gesture use

Gesture

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 330-347

  Smithson, Lisa ^a   Nicoladis, Elena ^a   Marentette, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Gesture use; Lexical access; Representational gestures; Speech production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856325024     PISSN: 15681475     EISSN: 15699773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/gest.11.3.04smi     Document Type: Article

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