Information packaging in speech shapes information packaging in gesture: The role of speech planning units in the coordination of speech-gesture production

Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 104Author(s): Isabella Fritz, Sotaro Kita, Jeannette Littlemore, Andrea KrottAbstractLinguistic encoding influences the gestural manner and path depiction of motion events. Gestures depict manner and path of motion events differently across languages, either conflating or separating manner and path, depending on whether manner and path are linguistically encoded within one clause (e.g., "rolling down") or multiple clauses (e.g., "descends as it rolls") respectively. However, it is unclear whether such gestural differences are affected by how speech packages information into planning units or by the way information is lexicalised (as verb plus particle or as two verbs). In two experiments, we manipulated t...

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