Do gestures follow speech in bilinguals' description of motion?

• Autores: Seyda Özçaliskan
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 19, Nº 3, 2016, págs. 644-653
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When do the gestures do and do not follow the patterns of the language one speaks? We examined this question by studying 10 Turkish-English bilingual adults (Turkish as L1) in comparison to 10 monolingual English and 10 monolingual Turkish adults as they described motion events either in speech with gesture (co-speech gesture) or only in gesture without speech (silent gesture). All speakers – monolingual and bilingual – showed cross-linguistic differences in co-speech gesture but not in silent gesture. Moreover, bilinguals followed L1 co-speech gesture patterns even when speaking L2, suggesting that acquisition of native-like gesture patterns does not co-occur with the acquisition of native-like speech patterns in bilinguals.