Gesture and Environment: A Tentative Study of Some of the Spatio-temporal and "linguistic" Aspects of the Gestural Behavior of Eastern Jews and Southern Italians in New York City, Living Under Similar as Well as Different Environmental Conditions |
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Tendencies in the Gestural Behavior | 43 |
Tendencies in the Gestural Behavior | 79 |
Table Summari ummarizing Differences between | 103 |
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