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Peer reviewedZheng, Mingyu; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Cognition, 2002
Compared gestures of Chinese and American deaf children who had not been exposed to a usable conventional language model with speech of hearing children learning Mandarin or English. Found that deaf children conveyed central elements of motion events in their communications. Deaf American and Chinese children used gestures to express motion in…
Descriptors: Body Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
