Cross-modal investigation of event component omissions in language development: a comparison of signing and speaking children

Sumer, Beyza; Özyürek, Aslı

doi:10.1080/23273798.2022.2042336

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

2022

DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2022.2042336

|View full text |Cite

Cross-modal investigation of event component omissions in language development: a comparison of signing and speaking children

Beyza Sumer

Aslı Özyürek

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2022

2024

Publication Types

Select...

Article3

Relationship

Self Cite1

Independent2

Authors

Journals

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition

Ünal,

Mamus,

Özyürek

2023

Lang. cogn.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

How people communicate about motion events and how this is shaped by language typology are mostly studied with a focus on linguistic encoding in speech. Yet, human communication typically involves an interactional exchange of multimodal signals, such as hand gestures that have different affordances for representing event components. Here, we review recent empirical evidence on multimodal encoding of motion in speech and gesture to gain a deeper understanding of whether and how language typology shapes linguistic expressions in different modalities, and how this changes across different sensory modalities of input and interacts with other aspects of cognition. Empirical evidence strongly suggests that Talmy’s typology of event integration predicts multimodal event descriptions in speech and gesture and visual attention to event components prior to producing these descriptions. Furthermore, variability within the event itself, such as type and modality of stimuli, may override the influence of language typology, especially for expression of manner.

show abstract

Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition

Ünal,

Mamus,

Özyürek

2023

Lang. cogn.

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Learning to introduce referents in narration is resilient to the effects of late sign language exposure

Gür

Sumer

2022

SL&L

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present study investigates the effects of late sign language exposure on narrative development in Turkish Sign Language (TİD) by focusing on the introductions of main characters and the linguistic strategies used in these introductions. We study these domains by comparing narrations produced by native and late signers in TİD. The results of our study reveal that late sign language exposure does not hinder the acquisition of linguistic devices to introduce main characters in narrations. Thus, their acquisition seems to be resilient to the effects of late language exposure. Our study further suggests that a two-year exposure to sign language facilitates the acquisition of these skills in signing children even in the case of late language exposure, thus providing further support for the importance of sign language exposure to develop linguistic skills for signing children.

show abstract

First-language acquisition in a multimodal language framework: Insights from speech, gesture, and sign

Karadöller,

Sümer,

Özyürek

2024

First Language

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Children across the world acquire their first language(s) naturally, regardless of typology or modality (e.g. sign or spoken). Various attempts have been made to explain the puzzle of language acquisition using several approaches, trying to understand to what extent it can be explained by what children bring to language-learning situations as well as what they learn from the input and the interactive context. However, most of these approaches consider only speech development, thus ignoring the inherently multimodal nature of human language. As a multimodal view of language is becoming more widely adopted for the study of adult language, a multimodal approach to language acquisition is inevitable. Not only do children have the capacity to learn spoken and sign language equally easily, but spoken language acquisition consists of learning to coordinate linguistic expressions in both modalities, that is, in both speech and gesture. To provide a step forward in this direction, this article aims to synthesize findings from research studies that take a multimodal perspective on language acquisition in different sign and spoken languages, including the development of speech and accompanying gestures. Our review shows that while some aspects of language acquisition seem to be modality-independent, others might differ according to the affordances of each modality when used separately as well as together (either in sign, speech, and/or gesture). We argue that these findings need to be integrated into our understanding of language acquisition. We also identify which areas need future research for both spoken and sign language acquisition, taking into account not only multimodal but also cross-linguistic variation.

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

customersupport@researchsolutions.com

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

Cross-modal investigation of event component omissions in language development: a comparison of signing and speaking children

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition

Multimodal encoding of motion events in speech, gesture and cognition

Learning to introduce referents in narration is resilient to the effects of late sign language exposure

First-language acquisition in a multimodal language framework: Insights from speech, gesture, and sign

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About