Cognitive constraints on constituent order: Evidence from elicited pantomime

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Hall, Matthew L ^a   Mayberry, Rachel I ^b   Ferreira, Victor S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Pantomime; Production; Sign language; SOV; Word order

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH;

GESTURE; PANTOMIME; PRODUCTION; SIGN LANGUAGE; SOV; WORD ORDER;

ADULT; COGNITION; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SIGN LANGUAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879539482     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.05.004     Document Type: Article

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