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Bilinguals have more difficulty mastering their second language—but only when it makes finer distinctions than their first language #bilingual #spatialmotion #crosslinguistic cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Gesture and speech go hand-in-hand in the early language development of twins cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Gesture and speech link in twins news.gsu.edu/2021/05/10/for… #twins #language

Not only languages but also dialects within a language differ in the way they express spatial events doi.org/10.1016/j.ling…

Moving across spaces differently in different dialects: news.agnesscott.org/the-latest-hea…

Literacy shapes children’s gestures: Children who have learned to read shift to the orientation and directionality of their writing system when gesturing about time link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congrats to Su on her dissertation: gesturing in aphasia #gesture, #aphasia

Describing motion in first versus second language: bidirectional effects #motion, #bilingual sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congrats to Stephanie Baumann on her dissertation: how cartoon characters talk and gesture #gesture, #cartoons, #children, #languagelearning

Using and understanding different types of gestures (point at cookie) and gesture-speech combinations (point at cookie and say cookie) show similarities in autism and typical development—even if children with autism gesture less #autism, #gesture link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Congrats to Irmak Su Tutuncu on her MA thesis on gesturing and talking about spatial events in different languages #gesture, #motionevents, #crosslinguistic

Gesture shows cross-linguistic DIFFERENCES when speaking but cross-linguistic SIMILARITIES when not speaking: evidence from English, Chinese, Turkish #gesture, #motion, #Languages onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Children's gestures show cross-linguistic differences when speaking and cross-linguistic similarities when not speaking by age 3-4 #gesture #language #child #crosslinguistic Development of gesture with and without speech: Language & Cognition | bit.ly/3P0Urje

Speech about physical motion (run across park) and metaphorical motion (run across mind) go hand in hand across different languages of the world #language #metaphor #motion doi.org/10.1515/cog-20…

News release on our recent article: news.gsu.edu/2023/11/29/new… #gesture, #LanguageLearning #Motion

Translators follow target language patterns when translating physical and metaphorical events to different languages #Motion #translation #crosslinguistic doi.org/10.1080/109264…

Blind children gesture like sighted children-both when speaking and when not speaking #gesture #LanguageLearning #Motion #blindness doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

Gesture plays a compensatory role in aphasia communication: a role that also varies by aphasia type and discourse type #aphasia #gesture #Brocas #anomic #narrative doi.org/10.1044/2024_A…

Speakers of structurally different languages learn novel words (e.g., norcu) for motion (manner, path) in similar ways even if they express them differently in their native language. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Lack of systematicity in the use of speech and gesture by characters in children’s cartoons in the US, along with a continuation of the male bias #CartoonNetwork #children's tv #gesture #Television doi.org/10.1080/174827…