Gesture production and speech fluency in competent speakers and language learners
(2013) Tilburg Gesture Research Meeting (TiGeR) 2013- Abstract
- It is often assumed that a main function of gestures is to compensate for expressive difficulties. This predicts that gestures should mainly occur with disfluent speech. However, surprisingly little is known about the relationship between gestures and fluent vs. disfluent speech. This study investigates the putative ompensatory role of gesture by examining competent speakers’ and language learners’ gestural production in fluent vs. non-fluent speech. Results show that both competent and less competent speakers predominantly produce gestures during fluent stretches of speech; ongoing gestures during disfluencies are suspended.
In all groups, the few gestures that are completed during disfluencies are both referential and pragmatic.... (More) - It is often assumed that a main function of gestures is to compensate for expressive difficulties. This predicts that gestures should mainly occur with disfluent speech. However, surprisingly little is known about the relationship between gestures and fluent vs. disfluent speech. This study investigates the putative ompensatory role of gesture by examining competent speakers’ and language learners’ gestural production in fluent vs. non-fluent speech. Results show that both competent and less competent speakers predominantly produce gestures during fluent stretches of speech; ongoing gestures during disfluencies are suspended.
In all groups, the few gestures that are completed during disfluencies are both referential and pragmatic. The findings strongly suggest that when speech stops, so do gestures, thus supporting the view of speech and gesture as an integrated system. (Less)
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- Graziano, Maria LU and Gullberg, Marianne LU
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- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- second language acquisition, gestures, first language acquisition, speech fluency
- host publication
- [Host publication title missing]
- publisher
- Tilburg University
- conference name
- Tilburg Gesture Research Meeting (TiGeR) 2013
- conference location
- Tilburg, Netherlands
- conference dates
- 2013-06-19 - 2013-06-21
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Humanities Lab (015101200), Linguistics and Phonetics (015010003)
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- 46ec006a-7f8e-4932-bbb4-4ece4969dbc3 (old id 3955045)
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- http://tiger.uvt.nl/pdf/papers/graziano.pdf
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- 2016-04-04 11:04:33
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