Widening the lens: What the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1651, 2014, Pages

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Co speech gesture; Gesture speech mismatch; Homesign; Nicaraguan Sign Language

Indexed keywords

CHILD; COGNITION; HEARING; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; SIGNALING;

EID: 84905234172     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0295     Document Type: Article

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