An investigation of the use of co-verbal gestures in oral discourse among Chinese speakers with fluent versus non-fluent aphasia and healthy adults

Introduction Co-verbal gestures can facilitate word production among persons with aphasia (PWA) (Rose, Douglas, & Matyas, 2002) and play a communicative role for PWA to convey ideas (Sekine & Rose, 2013). Kong, Law, Kwan, Lai, and Lam (2015) recently reported a systematic approach to indepe...

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Main Authors: Anthony Pak Hin Kong, Sampo Law
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2015.65.00079/full