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Jul 5, 2013 · Hand gesturing is uniquely tied to speech from infancy. In fact, scientists observe the ability of infants as young as 18-months to use hand gestures as a predictor of later language abilities in ...
There is gesture-speech unity. Containing over 100 illustrations. Why We Gesture provides visual evidence to support the book's central argument that gestures orchestrate speech. This compelling book will be welcomed by students and researchers working in linguistics, psychology, and communication.
Feb 4, 2016 · Hand gestures help us take what's in our mind and make it intelligible to others. "Gesture is really linked to speech, and gesturing while you talk can really power up your thinking," Kinsey Goman ...
- Carolyn Gregoire
Aug 11, 2020 · While use of a barrier in the language game does not prevent the speaker from using gestures, it may implicitly decrease the amount of gestures they produce as people gesture less when their listener cannot see them (Alibali et al., 2001; Mol et al., 2011), and it prevents any gestures they do produce from being communicative to the listener.
- Knowledge Test
- Visual Explanations
- Completeness of Visual Explanations
- Videoed Explanations
- Invented and Imitated Gestures
- Speech Analysis
- Proportion of Information Type in Speech
An item analysis of the knowledge test revealed that one of the eight action questions and one of the eight structure questions had low reliability with the remaining questions and were not pure action or structure, but relied on knowledge of both. The action question was: “A byproduct of air and fuel is pushed by a piston and goes out through an e...
Examples of diagrams that participants produced in creating visual explanations are shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The diagrams were analyzed for inclusion of four key visual components that reflected action and structure information. The experimenter and another coder blind to conditions coded all the diagrams and resolved any differences by discussion. ...
Participants’ visual explanations were analyzed for completeness. Diagrams were coded as complete if they included all four steps of the process and incomplete otherwise. The names of the steps alone did not count as complete. Those who had seen action gestures produced more complete diagrams (25 out of 29) that included all four steps than those w...
The participants’ videoed explanations were analyzed for gesture and language. One video was not recorded due to equipment malfunction. Two participants from the action group and three from the structure group never used their hands but were included in the analyses because not producing gestures is a behavioral pattern, if an infrequent one. The a...
Most of the gestures participants produced were inventions, not imitations of what they had seen. In communicative situations, gesture mimicry is common (e.g., Holler & Wilkin, 2011; Mol, Krahmer, Maes, & Swerts, 2012). Thus, invented gestures are especially indicative of deep understanding because they are creations of the individuals from their o...
Supporting the claims that action information is both more important and harder to convey, of the total of 2550 information units in the speech corpus, 1607 conveyed action, 737 conveyed structure, and 206 conveyed other information. Those who had viewed action gestures produced a total of 1425 information units, 929 conveying action, 387 conveying...
Because those who had viewed action gestures produced more speech, the proportions of action, structure, and other information units were analyzed by viewed gesture; the means appear in Fig. 11. A univariate ANOVA corroborated a higher percent of action information, F(2, 168) = 348.23, p < .01, {\eta}_p^2=.81 . Post-hoc (Tukey’s HSD) confirmed this...
- Seokmin Kang, Barbara Tversky, Barbara Tversky
- 2016
Apr 20, 2015 · When we speak, we put our thoughts into words, and when we gesture, we put our thoughts into our hands. But gestures don’t just show what we’re thinking—they actually help us think. Toddlers ...
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This book offers an answer. The reasons we gesture are more profound. Language itself is inseparable from gesture. While gestures enhance the material carriers of meaning, the core is gesture and speech together. They are bound more tightly than saying the gesture is an “add-on” or “ornament” implies. They are united as a matter of ...
