Universal development and L1-L2 convergence in bilingual construal of manner in speech and gesture in Mandarin, Japanese, and English

Modern Language Journal

Volumn 99, Issue S1, 2015, Pages 66-82

  Brown, Amanda ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Cross linguistic; Gesture; L1 L2 convergence; Motion events; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923037878     PISSN: 00267902     EISSN: 15404781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4781.2015.12179.x     Document Type: Article

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