How gesture input provides a helping hand to language development

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 227-236

  Özçaliśkan, Şeyda ^a   Dimitrova, Nevena ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gesture input; Gesture production; gesture speech combination; language development

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONTINUING EDUCATION; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84889661623     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: 10989056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1353447     Document Type: Article

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