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Expression of motion events in Farsi.
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Language, Cognition & Neuroscience . Jul2017, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p792-804. 13p. 2 Color Photographs, 2 Charts, 3 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The current study examines how gestural representations of motion events arise from linguistic expressions in Farsi, as this language offers many unique characteristics; exhibiting characteristics of both Talmy’s satellite- and verb-framed languages. We examined native Farsi speakers’ speech and gestures in describing 20 motion events. We focused on two motion event components: path (trajectory of motion likeup) and manner (how the action is performed likejumping). Analyses of syntactic packaging and clause-level correspondence between speech and gesture, as well as parallel ordering of speech and gesture sequences were, for the most part, in support of models that posit a close correspondence between speech-gesture production. However, while Farsi speakers described both path and manner in their speech, gesture was markedly impoverished for manner, suggesting constraints on the one-to-one mapping between linguistic and gestural expressions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23273798
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Language, Cognition & Neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 122900380
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1276607