Indicating Participants in Actions: From Prelinguistic Gestures to Signed Languages
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society
سال: 2001
ISSN: 2377-1666,0363-2946
DOI: 10.3765/bls.v27i1.1100