Gesture and aphasia: Helping hands?
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Gesture and aphasia: Helping hands?
BACKGROUND: The study of communicative gestures is one of considerable interest for aphasia, in relation to theory, diagnosis, and treatment. Significant limitations currently permeate the general (psycho)linguistic literature on gesture production, and attention to these limitations is essential for both continued investigation and clinical application of gesture for people with aphasia. AIMS...
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عنوان ژورنال: Aphasiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0268-7038,1464-5041
DOI: 10.1080/02687030701192273