Gesture and its impact of resolving lexical ambiguity

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Mitra Khalili ¹

1 - Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch, Iran

Received: 2013-05-22 Accepted : 2013-06-25 Published : 2013-08-01

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