Expression of motion events in Farsi

<p>The current study examines how gestural representations of motion events arise from linguistic expressions in Farsi, as this language offers many unique characteristics; exhibiting characteristics of both Talmy’s satellite- and verb-framed languages. We examined native Farsi speakers’ speech and gestures in describing 20 motion events. We focused on two motion event components: path (trajectory of motion like <i>up</i>) and manner (how the action is performed like <i>jumping</i>). Analyses of syntactic packaging and clause-level correspondence between speech and gesture, as well as parallel ordering of speech and gesture sequences were, for the most part, in support of models that posit a close correspondence between speech-gesture production. However, while Farsi speakers described both path and manner in their speech, gesture was markedly impoverished for manner, suggesting constraints on the one-to-one mapping between linguistic and gestural expressions.</p

sj-docx-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218221126685 – Supplemental material for Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-qjp-10.1177_17470218221126685 for Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings by Levent Emir Özder, Demet Özer and Tilbe Göksun in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology</p