Development of Cross-Linguistic Variation in Speech and Gesture: Motion Events in English and Turkish

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1040-1054

  Özyürek, Asli ^a,b   Kita, Sotaro ^c   Allen, Shanley ^d   Brown, Amanda ^e   Furman, Reyhan ^a,f   Ishizuka, Tomoko ^g  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cospeech gestures; cross linguistic; English; motion events; Turkish

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED STATES; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOSTON; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; TURKEY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 47249116258     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1040     Document Type: Article

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