Order of the major constituents in sign languages: Implications for all language

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Napoli, Donna Jo ^a   Sutton Spence, Rachel ^b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gesture; Sensorimotor systems and language; Sign languages; Syntax; Vision; Word order

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904581905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00376     Document Type: Article

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