2019
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.008
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Hearing non-signers use their gestures to predict iconic form-meaning mappings at first exposure to signs

Abstract: The sign languages of deaf communities and the gestures produced by hearing people are communicative systems that exploit the manual-visual modality as means of expression. Despite their striking differences they share the property of iconicity, understood as the direct relationship between a symbol and its referent. Here we investigate whether non-signing hearing adults exploit their implicit knowledge of gestures to bootstrap accurate understanding of the meaning of iconic signs they have never seen before. … Show more

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“…Hearing L2 learners might transfer forms of the same gestures, such as thumbs up and no (palms forward) to their signing for signs with equivalent meaning (Chen Pichler et al 2016). Gestural knowledge is seen to facilitate L2 signers' comprehension but can contribute to L2 phonological variations in signs, i.e., errors (Ortega & Morgan 2015b;Ortega, Schiefner & Özyürek 2019). Ortega, Schiefner & Özyürek (2019) furthermore suggest that the gestural repertoire serves as manual cognates for learning the sign language lexicon.…”
Section: The Status Of Research On L2 Sign Languages and Mouth Actionsmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…Hearing L2 learners might transfer forms of the same gestures, such as thumbs up and no (palms forward) to their signing for signs with equivalent meaning (Chen Pichler et al 2016). Gestural knowledge is seen to facilitate L2 signers' comprehension but can contribute to L2 phonological variations in signs, i.e., errors (Ortega & Morgan 2015b;Ortega, Schiefner & Özyürek 2019). Ortega, Schiefner & Özyürek (2019) furthermore suggest that the gestural repertoire serves as manual cognates for learning the sign language lexicon.…”
Section: The Status Of Research On L2 Sign Languages and Mouth Actionsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Gestural knowledge is seen to facilitate L2 signers' comprehension but can contribute to L2 phonological variations in signs, i.e., errors (Ortega & Morgan 2015b;Ortega, Schiefner & Özyürek 2019). Ortega, Schiefner & Özyürek (2019) furthermore suggest that the gestural repertoire serves as manual cognates for learning the sign language lexicon. Studies by Gullberg and colleagues (Gullberg 1998;Gullberg, Bot & Volterra 2008) have also pointed out the important role of gestures in spoken Second Language Acquisition, among other things, finding a link between language fluency and gesture frequency: that is, gestures are (among other things) used as communica-tion strategies to compensate for less language fluency and to overcome obstacles (Gullberg 1998).…”
Section: The Status Of Research On L2 Sign Languages and Mouth Actionsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Many of these concepts are already associated with conventionalized gestures. For example, Ortega et al [109,110] asked hearing participants to produce gestures for a range of meanings. For many meanings, the gestures produced were highly consistent across participants.…”
Section: Emergence and Evolution Of Human Language In The Wild And Inmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In other words, the ways in which people conceptualize real-world objects or concepts derives from the ways in which they physically interact with those objects or concepts (Hostetter & Alibali, 2008). Grounding real-world concepts in terms of their associated motor schemas makes it likely that people who interact physically with the world in similar ways will tend to align on the same gestures when communicating the same concepts (Ortega et al, 2019). This may explain why we observed more similarity among participants' gestures than their vocalizations: participants of all ages tend to interact with their environment in similar physical ways, so when asked to represent the world through gestures, they tended to align upon similar (and mutually salient) solutions.…”
Section: Gesture Is More Enculturated and Less Diverse Than Vocalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%