Making language around the globe: A crosslinguistic study of homesign in the United States, China, and Turkey

Crosslinguistic Approaches to the Psychology of Language: Research in the Tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 27-39

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Özyürek, Asli ^b,c,d   Sancar, Burcu ^a   Mylander, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^d KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203837887     Document Type: Chapter

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