Verbal memory resources predict iconic gesture use among monolinguals and bilinguals

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 934-944

  Smithson, Lisa ^a   Nicoladis, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingualism; gestures; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883316434     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000175     Document Type: Article

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