Lisa Smithson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lisa Smithson plays a role.

Article

Smithson, Lisa, Elena Nicoladis and Paula Marentette 2011 Bilingual children’s gesture useGesture 11:3, pp. 330–347 | Article
Previous studies have shown that bilinguals use more manual gestures than monolinguals (Pika et al., 2006; Nicoladis et al., 2009), suggesting that gestures may facilitate lexical retrieval or may reduce the cognitive load on working memory during speech production. In this study, we tested the… read more