How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?: Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities

• DOI: 10.1075/gest.5.1-2.15ozy
• Publication Date: 2014-02-26T10:00:23Z
• Authors: Aslı Özyürek; Sotaro Kita; Shanley Allen; Reyhan Furman; Amanda Brown
• Keywords: Framing (construction)

What are the relations between linguistic encoding and gestural representations of events during online speaking? The few studies that have been conducted on this topic yielded somewhat incompatible results with regard to whether how change differences in preferred semantic syntactic possibilities languages. Here we provide large scale semantic, temporal analyses speech- gesture pairs depict 10 different motion from 20 Turkish English speakers. We find same differ across languages when they encoded by frames (i.e., verb-framed or satellite-framed). However, where there similarities languages, such as omission a certain element event encoding, also look similar omit content. discussed terms what gestures reveal about influence language specific on-line thinking patterns underlying interactions speech speaking process.