What the hands can tell us about language emergence

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 213-218

  Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Homesign; Mimetic encoding; Sign language

Indexed keywords

GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE;

GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SIGN LANGUAGE;

EID: 84976464674     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-016-1074-x     Document Type: Article

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