Language and Environment: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Gestural Communication Systems of Chinese and American Deaf Children

Wang, Xiao-lei; Mylander, Carolyn; Goldin-Meadow, Susan

doi:10.1075/bjl.8.10wan

Article published In: Perspectives on Language and Conceptualization
Edited by Jan Nuyts and Eric Pederson
[Belgian Journal of Linguistics 8] 1993
► pp. 167–185

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Language and Environment

A Cross-Cultural Study of the Gestural Communication Systems of Chinese and American Deaf Children

Xiao-lei Wang | The University of Chicago

Carolyn Mylander | The University of Chicago

Susan Goldin-Meadow | The University of Chicago

Published online: 1 January 1993

https://doi.org/10.1075/bjl.8.10wan

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