How Referential Gestures Align with Speech: Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers

Autor/inn/en	Graziano, Maria; Nicoladis, Elena; Marentette, Paula
Titel	How Referential Gestures Align with Speech: Evidence from Monolingual and Bilingual Speakers
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 70 (2020) 1, S.266-304 (39 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Graziano, Maria) ORCID (Nicoladis, Elena) ORCID (Marentette, Paula)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12376
Schlagwörter	Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Nonverbal Communication; English; French; Time; Speech Communication + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; English language; Englisch; Französisch; Zeit
Abstract	When speaking, people often produce gestures that are closely timed with the speech with which they constitute a semantically coherent unit. Analyzing the temporal patterns between the two modalities may reveal insights about how speakers plan them. Using elicited narratives, we tested English/French monolinguals and bilinguals to check whether bilinguals, known to experience a higher degree of competition in lexical access, show a different pattern of gesture-speech alignment compared to that of monolinguals. Results revealed no difference in the temporal patterns between gestures and co-semantic speech for the two language groups. Synchronous gestures were significantly more frequent than asynchronous ones; asynchronous gestures both preceded and followed the correlated speech, yet preceding gestures tended to occur more often. A qualitative analysis conducted for asynchronous gestures revealed that they may serve a rhetoric function. We argue that the variability in gesture-speech timing results from speakers' strategic use of gesture. (As Provided).
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