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Do teachers adapt their gestures in linguistically heterogeneous second language teaching to learners’ language proficiencies? Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Moritz Sahlender, Inga ten Hagen
Teachers’ use of gestures in the classroom can support the language acquisition of learners in learning a second language (Stam & Tellier, 2022). Depending on learners’ language skills, different dimensions of gestures (e.g., deictic, metaphorical) are considered to facilitate successful language comprehension. This study investigates which gestures teachers use in German as a second language (GSL)
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Evidence of Zipfian distributions in three sign languages Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Inbal Kimchi, Lucie Wolters, Rose Stamp, Inbal Arnon
One striking commonality between languages is their Zipfian distributions: A power-law distribution of word frequency. This distribution is found across languages, speech genres, and within different parts of speech. The recurrence of such distributions is thought to reflect cognitive and/or communicative pressures and to facilitate language learning. However, research on Zipfian distributions has
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Chimpanzees coordinate interrogative markers to ask questions Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Kailie Dombrausky, Mary Lee Jensvold, Heidi L. Shaw, J. Quentin Davis
Questions serve to initiate and continue conversation as well as to gain information and introduce new topics. In signed languages a question can be signaled by modifying the content of an utterance or by coordinating the use of nonmanual markers (e.g., the questioning look) and manual modulation (e.g., holding the sign for an extended duration). Cross-fostered chimpanzees, who use signs of American
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Do gestures reflect children’s lexical retrieval difficulties? Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Elena Nicoladis, Emma Hill
According to the Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis, one important function of representational gestures is to help speakers retrieve words for production. In this study, we test whether gestures help preschoolers access words for production. We tested two predictions generated from the LRH. First, since bilinguals often have greater difficulties with lexical access than monolinguals, we predicted that bilinguals
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Demographic, neuropsychological, and speech variables that impact iconic and supplementary-to-speech gesturing in aphasia Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Brielle C. Stark, Grace Oeding
We model the role of demographic, neuropsychological and speech variables in characterizing iconic gesture use in speakers with aphasia, especially gestures that supplement speech and are essential for understanding the spoken message. Using backward regression modelling with cross validation in 37 speakers with aphasia, literature-derived demographic (e.g., age), neuropsychological (e.g., aphasia
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The road to language through gesture Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Beatrijs Wille, Hilde Nyffels, Olga Capirci
This study explores the role of gestures in Flemish Sign Language (VGT) development through a longitudinal observation of three deaf children’s early interactions. These children were followed over a period of one and a half year, at the ages of 6, 9, 12, 18 and 24 months. This research compares the communicative development of a deaf child growing up in a deaf family and two deaf children growing
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Weakest link or strongest link? Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-31 Andrea Marquardt Donovan, Sarah A. Brown, Martha W. Alibali
Teachers often use gestures to connect representations of mathematical ideas. This research examined (1) whether such linking gestures help students understand connections among representations and (2) whether sets of gestures that include repeated handshapes and motions – termed gestural catchments – are particularly beneficial. Undergraduates viewed one of four video lessons connecting two representations
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Review of Bressem (2021): Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Zhibin Peng, Muhammad Afzaal
This article reviews Repetitions in Gesture: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective 9783110697728€99,95
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Review of Galhano-Rodrigues, Galvão & Cruz-Santos (2019): Recent perspectives on gesture and multimodality Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Xi Wang, Fangfei Lv
This article reviews Recent perspectives on gesture and multimodality 978-1-5275-3536-7
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Automatic tool to annotate smile intensities in conversational face-to-face interactions Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Stéphane Rauzy, Mary Amoyal
This study presents an automatic tool that allows to trace smile intensities along a video record of conversational face-to-face interactions. The processed output proposes a sequence of adjusted time intervals labeled following the Smiling Intensity Scale (Gironzetti, Attardo, and Pickering, 2016), a 5 levels scale varying from neutral facial expression to laughing smile. The underlying statistical
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Iconic gestures serve as primes for both auditory and visual word forms Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Iván Sánchez-Borges, Carlos J. Álvarez
Previous studies using cross-modal semantic priming have found that iconic gestures prime target words that are related with the gestures. In the present study, two analogous experiments examined this priming effect presenting prime and targets in high synchrony. In Experiment 1, participants performed an auditory primed lexical decision task where target words (e.g., “push”) and pseudowords had to
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The Raised Index Finger gesture in Hebrew multimodal interaction Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Anna Inbar
The present study examines the roles that the gesture of the Raised Index Finger (RIF) plays in Hebrew multimodal interaction. The study reveals that the RIF is associated with diverse linguistic phenomena and tends to appear in contexts in which the speaker presents a message or speech act that violates the hearer’s expectations (based on either general knowledge or prior discourse). The study suggests
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Co-speech gestures can interfere with learning foreign language words* Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Elena Nicoladis, Paula Marentette, Candace Lam
Co-speech gestures can help the learning, processing, and memory of words and concepts, particularly motoric and spatial concepts such as verbs. The purpose of the present studies was to test whether co-speech gestures support the learning of words through gist traces of movement. We asked English monolinguals to learn 40 Cantonese words (20 verbs and 20 nouns). In two studies, we found support for
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Searching for the roots of signs in children’s early gestures Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Olga Capirci, Morgana Proietti, Virginia Volterra
A consolidated tendency considers ‘gestures’ and ‘signs’ as distinct categories separated by a ‘cataclysmic break’. According to a different approach, gestures and signs have their common origin in actions, and are considered as part of language. The aim of this study was to compare the productions of preschool speaking hearing children and signing deaf children in response to the same visual stimuli
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Gestures are modulated by social context Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Lucien Brown, Hyunji Kim, Iris Hübscher, Bodo Winter
This paper investigates gesture as a resource for marking politeness-related meanings. We asked 14 Korean and 14 Catalan participants to retell a cartoon, once to an unknown superior and once to a close friend. Participants in both languages curtail gestures when interacting with a socially distant superior. Speakers of both languages produced fewer gestures when addressing the superior, reduced their
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Coordinating and sharing gesture spaces in collaborative reasoning Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Robert F. Williams
In collaborative reasoning about what causes the seasons, phases of the moon, and tides, participants (three to four per group) introduce ideas by gesturing depictively in personal space. Other group members copy and vary these gestures, imbuing their gesture spaces with similar conceptual properties. This leads at times to gestures being produced in shared space as members elaborate and contest a
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Managing co-presence with a wave of the hand Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Pauliina Siitonen, Marika Helisten, Maarit Siromaa, Mirka Rauniomaa, Mari Holmström
The article examines naturally-occuring video-mediated breaks from work as social activity and focuses on the use of waving gestures in their openings and closings. Drawing on multimodal conversation analysis as a research method and recorded virtual breaks of two work communities in Finland as data, the study shows that, contrary to openings and closings in a physical breakroom at the workplace, waving
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A recurring absence gesture in Northern Pastaza Kichwa Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Alexander Rice
In this paper I posit the use of a spread-fingered hand torque gesture among speakers of Northern Pastaza Kichwa (Quechuan, Ecuador) as a recurrent gesture conveying the semantic theme of absence. The data come from a documentary video corpus collected by multiple researchers. The gesture prototypically takes the form of at least one pair of rapid rotations of the palm (the torque). Fingers can be
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Indexing turn-beginnings in Norwegian Sign Language conversation Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2022-12-31 Lindsay Ferrara
It is well known that signers and speakers routinely produce finger points during interaction. While the referential functions of such finger points have received great attention from researchers, they are also used to manage interactions between interlocutors. These functions are less understood and have received less research focus. The current study helps to redress this gap in the literature by
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Handling talk Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Jana Bressem, Claudia Wegener
This paper discusses how a particular type of recurrent gesture, the holding away gesture, highlights and structures spoken utterances in German and Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. In particular, the paper poses the following questions: What kinds of discursive functions of this gesture are observable in these speech communities? How do they map onto
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The diversity of recurrency Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig, Jana Bressem
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Locational pointing in Murrinhpatha, Gija, and English conversations Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Caroline de Dear, Joe Blythe, Francesco Possemato, Lesley Stirling, Rod Gardner, Ilana Mushin, Frances Kofod
It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent topographic features is a consequence of absolute frame of reference being dominant in these languages; and that the lackadaisical points produced by North American English speakers is an outcome of relative frame being dominant
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Representational gestures correlated with meaning-associated aspects of L2 speech performance Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Sai Ma, Guangsa Jin, Michael Barlow
Gesture and speech are closely associated channels involved in conveying meaning. Previous studies have reported the relationship between gesture use and speech performance for highly proficient speakers. This study extends the investigation of this relationship by correlating the representational gesture rate and complexity, accuracy, and fluency measures for L2 speech produced by lower-intermediate-level
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High verbal working memory load impairs gesture-speech integration Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Kendra G. Kandana Arachchige, Henning Holle, Mandy Rossignol, Isabelle Simoes Loureiro, Laurent Lefebvre
While previous studies have shown the importance of visuo-spatial working memory in the processing of co-speech iconic gestures, clear evidence for a potential involvement of the verbal working memory (vWM) is currently lacking. To address this issue, participants in the present study were presented with a dual task paradigm. The main outcome variable was the performance on a Stroop-like gesture task
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The role of language proficiency, gender, and language dominance in using co-speech gestures to identify referents in narratives by Persian-English bilinguals Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Azizollah Dabaghi Varnosfadrani, Mahbube Tavakol
The research reported here examined the effects of language proficiency, gender, and language dominance on gesture use in the tracking of referents by Persian-English bilinguals. 32 EFL learners were divided into two groups of highly proficient and less proficient speakers with equal number of males and females in each group. They were presented with a video extract and asked to recount the story in
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Recurrent gestures throughout bodies, languages, and cultural practices Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig
In gesture studies, the adjective ‘recurrent’ has developed to distinguish a range of semiotic and conceptual phenomena concerning the nature of meaningful bodily movements. This article begins with a brief and recent history of recurrent gesture studies. We raise ongoing debates concerning the position of recurrent gestures on the so-called Kendon’s continuum, the relation between gestures and practical
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The Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Silva H. Ladewig, Lena Hotze
This paper introduces the Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike or meta-commentary recurring in conflictive situations between German children aged four to six (Hotze, 2019). Children move this way primarily in stopping a co-participant’s action and protesting against the action to be stopped. The Slapping movements documented showed different manners of execution. Some forms appeared
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French and British children’s shrugs Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-31 Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel, Aliyah Morgenstern
This paper presents a multimodal and form-based approach to language development grounded in situated practices and focuses on the longitudinal analysis of a composite gesture, the shrug, in two datasets of mother-child interactions in French and British English. The shrug in its full-fledged form can combine a palm-up, lifted shoulders, a head tilt, raised eyebrows and a mouth shrug (Kendon, 2004;
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Handling language Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-22
Abstract This paper addresses the question of how speakers adapt their gestures according to their interlocutor’s proficiency level in the language of the interaction especially in the specific context of foreign language teaching. We know that speakers make changes in their speech when addressing a non-native speaker, called Foreigner Talk (Ferguson, 1975) to make their speech more comprehensible
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Discourse markers in relation tonon-verbal behavior Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Izidor Mlakar, Matej Rojc, Simona Majhenič, Darinka Verdonik
The research proposed in this paper focuses on pragmatic interlinks between discourse markers and non-verbal behavior. Although non-verbal behavior is recognized to add non-redundant information and social interaction is not merely recognized as the transmission of words and sentences, the evidence regarding grammatical/linguistic interlinks between verbal and non-verbal concepts are vague and limited
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Gesture development in Peruvianchildren and its relationship with vocalizations and vocabulary Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 María Fernández-Flecha, María Blume, Andrea Junyent, Talía Tijero Neyra
We examine gestural development, and correlations between gesture types, vocalizations and vocabulary at ages 8 to 15 months, employing data from MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories for Peruvian Spanish, in the first such study with Peruvian children. Results show (1) significant change with age in the production of gesture types, with older children producing more; (2) important
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Interactional gestures as soccer celebrations Gesture (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2021-11-22 Celina Heliasz-Nowosielska
The article presents a variety of gesture types used as celebrations during or after soccer matches and explains the forms, meaning, reference and functions of the gestures as a semiotic phenomenon. The qualitative analysis of media images and comments on celebratory performances shows that pre-planned, creative celebrations, including trademarks or signatures, which have recently overshadowed spontaneous