Gesture use in story recall by Chinese–English bilinguals

Nicoladis, Elena; Pika, Simone; Yin, Hui; Marentette, Paula

doi:10.1017/s0142716407070385

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“…In contrast to the results with iconic gestures, studies have consistently shown that bilinguals, regardless of proficiency levels, use more non-iconic gestures than iconic gestures in their weaker language (Gullberg, 1999;Marcos, 1979;Nicoladis et al, 2007;Sherman & Nicoladis, 2004). There is no theoretical connection between non-iconic gestures and lexical access (e.g., Krauss, 1998).…”

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“…Researchers have suggested various attributes that are related to gesture use such as: age (Feyereisen & Havard, 1999); gender (Brinton & Hall, 1995;Hostetter & Hopkins, 2002;Nicoladis et al, 2007); a particular language/culture (Graham & Argyle, 1975); personality traits (Wiens, Harper, & Matarazzo, 1980); motivation to learn and to perform well (McNeil & Alibali, 2001); verbal fluency (Hostetter & Alibali 2007); and cognitive skills (Alibali, 2005). However, there is no consensus on what factors are associated with individual differences in gesture use.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Our initial analysis showed that there were no differences by gender on our dependent measures (cf. Nicoladis et al, 2007) so gender is not considered in our analysis.…”

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Predicting individual differences in L2 speakers’ gestures

Nagpal

Nicoladis

Marentette

2011

International Journal of Bilingualism

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While it is well known that there is a lot of variability in L2, researchers rarely measure the variability in L1 to predict the variability in L2. In this study we tested two explanations of the rate of gestures used in telling a story in L2: (1) a story-telling style underlying both L1 and L2 and (2) proficiency/fluency in L2. Hindi-English bilingual adults performed a story-telling task in their two languages. There was some support for the second predictor: the participants used more gestures in L2 than L1, consistent with gesturing to aid in accessing language. However, the results were strongly supportive of a story-telling style underlying both languages: the individual differences in gesture rate (along with the story length and the vocabulary variability) were highly correlated across languages but not correlated with L2 proficiency/fluency. These results illustrate the importance of studying L1 variability as an important predictor of L2 gesture use.

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Predicting individual differences in L2 speakers’ gestures

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Marentette

2011

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Mandarin was transcribed in hanyu pinyin, 1 and an English gloss was provided by the transcriber. The basic unit used to transcribe Mandarin was a word, rather than a Chinese character (see Nicoladis, Pika, Yin, & Marentette, 2007). There are many compound words in Chinese.…”

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Predicting two Mandarin-English bilingual children’s first 50 words: Effects of frequency and relative exposure in the input

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Nicoladis

2010

International Journal of Bilingualism

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This study tested two hypotheses that relate children's early words to the input:(1) the language of bilingual children's first words is correlated with their exposure time to each language and (2) children are more likely to acquire words from the first and/or last position in utterances. We tested these hypotheses with spontaneous language use in the families of two Mandarin-English bilingual children, followed longitudinally every three months from 6 months to 18 months. The results showed that the exposure time was a good but not perfect predictor of the language of the children's first 50 words. Also, both children learned more nouns in both languages than appeared in first or last position of their caregivers' utterances. We discuss these results in terms of support for a noun bias in children's minds and highlight the need for future research to take into account socio-cultural variables.

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“…Krauss & Hadar, 1999; Mol & Kita, 2012) and macro-linguistic (e.g. Azar & Özyürek, 2016; Kendon, 1994; McNeill, 1992; McNeill & Levy, 1993; Nicoladis, Marentette, & Navarro, 2016; Nicoladis, Pika, Yin, & Marentette, 2007) levels of discourse processing. Any general claim about the relationship between speech and gesture needs to take these different levels of discourse into consideration.…”

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The relationship between co-speech gesture production and macrolinguistic discourse abilities in people with focal brain injury

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Brain damage is associated with linguistic deficits and might alter co-speech gesture production. Gesture production after focal brain injury has been mainly investigated with respect to intrasentential rather than discourse-level linguistic processing. In this study, we examined 1) spontaneous gesture production patterns of people with left hemisphere damage (LHD) or right hemisphere damage (RHD) in a narrative setting, 2) the neural structures associated with deviations in spontaneous gesture production in these groups, and 3) the relationship between spontaneous gesture production and discourse level linguistic processes (narrative complexity and evaluation competence). Individuals with LHD or RHD (17 people in each group) and neurotypical controls (n = 13) narrated a story from a picture book. Results showed that increase in gesture production for LHD individuals was associated with less complex narratives and lesions of individuals who produced more gestures than neurotypical individuals overlapped in frontal-temporal structures and basal ganglia. Co-speech gesture production of RHD individuals positively correlated with their evaluation competence in narrative. Lesions of RHD individuals who produced more gestures overlapped in the superior temporal gyrus and the inferior parietal lobule. Overall, LHD individuals produced more gestures than neurotypical individuals. The groups did not differ in their use of different gesture forms except that LHD individuals produced more deictic gestures per utterance than RHD individuals and controls. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that co-speech gesture production interacts with macro-linguistic levels of discourse and this interaction is affected by the hemispheric lateralization of discourse abilities.

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Gesture use in story recall by Chinese–English bilinguals

Cited by 54 publications

References 39 publications

Predicting individual differences in L2 speakers’ gestures

Predicting individual differences in L2 speakers’ gestures

Predicting two Mandarin-English bilingual children’s first 50 words: Effects of frequency and relative exposure in the input

The relationship between co-speech gesture production and macrolinguistic discourse abilities in people with focal brain injury

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