Gesturing with an injured brain: How gesture helps children with early brain injury learn linguistic constructions

Journal of Child Language

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-105

  Özçalişkan, Şeyda ^a   Levine, Susan C ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^b  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 84870881363     PISSN: 03050009     EISSN: 14697602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000912000220     Document Type: Article

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