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Ozyurek, Asli; Kita, Sotaro; Allen, Shanley; Brown, Amanda; Furman, Reyhan; Ishizuka, Tomoko – Developmental Psychology, 2008
The way adults express manner and path components of a motion event varies across typologically different languages both in speech and cospeech gestures, showing that language specificity in event encoding influences gesture. The authors tracked when and how this multimodal cross-linguistic variation develops in children learning Turkish and…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Motion, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Choi, Soojung; Lantolf, James P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008
This study investigates the interface between speech and gesture in second language (L2) narration within Slobin's (2003) thinking-for-speaking (TFS) framework as well as with respect to McNeill's (1992, 2005) growth point (GP) hypothesis. Specifically, our interest is in whether speakers shift from a first language (L1) to a L2 TFS pattern as…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Cartoons, Motion