What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal? Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking

By Sotaro Kita, Asli Ozyurek. 2003

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Handling Discourse: Gestures, Reference Tracking, and Communication Strategies in Early L2 (2006, neutral): “Gestures defined in this way have been shown to reflect both lexical and discursive linguistic structures (e.g., Duncan, 1994; Kita & Özyürek, 2003; McNeill, 1992).”
Conceptualisation load triggers gesture production (2007, background): “Furthermore, the content of gestures is influenced by how the concurrent speech expresses spatial information in a language-specific way (Kita & Ozyurek, 2003 ; Ozyurek, Kita, Allen, Furman, & Brown, 2005 ).”
Ways of Crossing a Spatial Boundary in Typologically Distinct Languages (2015, background): “Earlier research showed that, in describing scenes with both manner and path components (e.g., rolling down a hill), Turkish speakers were more likely to produce separate gestures for manner and path than were English speakers (Kita & Özyürek, 2003; Özçalıskan, 2012).”
Mnemonic effect of iconic gesture and beat gesture in adults and children: Is meaning in gesture important for memory recall? (2012, background): “…system during the process of speech production (Cassell, McNeill, & McCullough, 1999; Clark, 1996; Kelly, Barr, Church, & Lynch, 1999; Kendon, 2004; Kita & Ozyurek, 2003; McNeill, 1992, 2005).1 Recently, there is growing evidence showing that gesture is closely integrated with speech during the…”
Giving Memory a Hand: Instructing Children to Gesture Enhances their Event Recall (2005, background): “Spontaneous gesture has been shown to communicate concrete and abstract ideas that are difficult to convey in speech, including size, shape, and spatial relationships (Goldin-Meadow, 1999, 2002b; Goldin-Meadow, McNeill, & Singleton, 1996; Kita & Ozyurek, 2003 ).”
The Effects of Visual Beats on Prosodic Prominence: Acoustic Analyses, Auditory Perception and Visual Perception. (2007, background): “…be illustrated by comparing various models for the combination of spoken language and manual gestures that were recently proposed, such as those of Kita and Özyürek (2003), Krauss, Chen, and Chawla (1996), and de Ruiter (2000), all based on the speech production model described by Levelt (1989).”
Mechanical reasoning by mental simulation. (2004, background): “Gestures are particularly associated with communication of spatial information [20, 21 ].”
Visible embodiment: Gestures as simulated action (2008, methodology): “According to the interface model (Kita & Özyürek, 2003), the plan for a gesture that is formed in the action generator influences the planning for speech in the message generator, and vice versa.”
Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in event conceptualization? Expressions of Path among Japanese learners of English* (2010, neutral): “Following previous studies (e.g., Kita & Özyürek, 2003; Slobin, 1996b, 1997, 2004b; Weingold, 1995), all lexical elements encoding information about the trajectory followed by the protagonist were coded as Path, including adpositional phrases indicating the speciﬁc direction with respect to a…”
On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials (2007, methodology): “The neural evidence for the tight link between speech and gesture that we observed underscores the fact that, in natural conversation, speech and gesture are often tightly interconnected (Bernardis & Gentilucci, 2006; Willems et al., in press; Kelly et al., 2004; Kendon, 2004; Goldin-Meadow, 2003;”