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Raising the stakes of communication: Evidence for increased gesture production as predicted by the GSA framework 提高沟通的风险:GSA框架预测的增加手势产生的证据

Information-An International Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2011-10-10 DOI: 10.3390/INFO2040579

S. Kelly, K. Byrne, J. Holler

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