Gesture and the communicative intention of the speaker

By Alissa Melinger, Willem J. M. Levelt. 2005

169 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

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Visible embodiment: Gestures as simulated action (2008, background): “For example, Melinger and Levelt (2004) instructed speakers to convey particular information about objects (e.g., size, shape) and found that speakers sometimes conveyed the target information in gestures and not speech.”
Neural reflections of meaning in gesture, language, and action (2009, background): “Finally, it has been shown that the spontaneous use of gestures has a similar function as speech (e.g. Özyürek 2002; Kendon 2004; Melinger and Levelt 2004), namely to communicate the intended message to the addressee.”
What speakers do and what addressees look at: visual attention to gestures in human interaction live and on video (2006, unknown): “The meaning they encode is closely related to, but not necessarily identical with, that expressed in language and speech (Melinger and Levelt 2004; Slama-Cazacu 1976).”
Postcards from the mind: The relationship between speech, imagistic gesture and thought (2007, background): “Melinger and Levelt (2004) provide experimental support for the assumptions underlying the Postcard Architecture.”
Handling Discourse: Gestures, Reference Tracking, and Communication Strategies in Early L2 (2006, unknown): “In contrast to spoken strategies, however, determining what is interactionally intended gestural behavior can be investigated (cf. Holler & Beattie, 2003; Melinger & Levelt, 2004).”
On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials (2007, background): “Finally, it has been shown that the spontaneous use of gestures has a similar function as speech (e.g., Kendon, 2004; Melinger & Levelt, 2004; Özyürek, 2002), namely, to communicate the intended message to the addressee.”