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Current research
The Gesture and Cognition Lab studies the coordination of the manual and vocal aspects of the human language system.
Our current research project focuses on the encoding of perspective (point of view) in speech and gesture. What factors cause participants to
take a first-person (rather than a third-person) perspective when describing events? How do such gestural phenomena relate to similar uses of
the hands and body in signed languages? What do such enactive behaviors tell us about the extent to which language production involves some kind of embodied simulation?
Other projects
- How are speech and gesture changed by differences in social context? This project uses
psycholinguistic experiments manipulating social factors (such as the amount of information available to participants in a discourse) and looks
for changes in behavior.
- How is meaning created using the two modalities? This
project involves in-depth analyses of discourse samples in order to determine how language users employ the two channels.
- What's the relationship between syntax and gesture? This project uses psycholinguistic experiments which induce participants to produce
different syntactic constructions in order to study how syntax and gesture link up.
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