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<li><b>Amy Franklin</b>
<p>My research includes work on the morphological (internal) structure of gesture and home sign. My current project examines that structure of gesture accompanying the speech of cochlear implanted children.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:alfrankl@midway.uchicago.edu">alfrankl@midway.uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Amy Hammond</b>
<p>My research interests include the syntax (ordering) of gestures in created gesture systems and the developmental progression of this ordering, with a special emphasis on action. In addition, I am interested in verb learning and children's memory for actions.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:aham@uchicago.edu">aham@uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Sarah Van Deusen Phillips</b>
<p>We know that language acquisition and socialization affect how a child comes to conceptualize and negotiate the cultural world into which s/he is born. Within the range of linguistic genres, we know that narrative helps to shape the ways in which children conceptualize their world in terms of norms and values. But an unspoken assumption in socialization research is that in order for children to benefit from engagement in everyday narrative activity, they must have access to a shared language. I test this assumption by working with deaf children from the United Sates and Spain who do not share a conventional language with their communities. I am exploring the extent to which these children can access cultural information concerning values and norms assumed to be passed from one generation to the next through language socialization and express them through home sign. This approach places an emphasis on narrative as embodied as well as spoken and will illustrate how important cultural values and norms may be redundantly encoded in both verbal and nonverbal behaviors, thus allowing all people access to them during socialization.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:sbvandeu@midway.uchicago.edu">sbvandeu@midway.uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Raedy Ping</b>
<p>I am interested in gesture's role in communication, especially insituations involving children. How do parents, teachers, and other adults
communicate with children in learning situations, and how do the children respond? What role does gesture have in these transactions? For example,
do adults use the gestures children produce in assessing what they understand, and do adults use their gestures as a tool to help children
understand them? I'm also curious about what we can learn about how children's minds develop by investigating their gestures, and what
mechanisms are involved in this gesture production.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:rping@uchicago.edu"> rping@uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Eve Sauer</b>
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<p>email: <a href="mailto:easauer@uchicago.edu">easauer@uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Bari Wieselman Schulman</b>
<p>My research explores speech and gesture patterns that are exhibited during descriptions of motion events in monolingual English and Spanish speakers and bilingual Spanish-English speakers.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:bdwiesel@uchicago.edu">bdwiesel@uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Melissa Singer</b>
<p>I am interested in which factors from the complex interaction between the learner and his social environment promote learning. I examine both the child's and the teacher's contribution to learning by examining both their spoken and gestured explanations of the task at hand. Specifically, for my dissertation I will explore the effects of spoken and gestural variability in instruction.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:masinger@midway.uchicago.edu">masinger@midway.uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Catherine W. So</b>
<p>I am interested in exploring the role of spatial modulations in describing
semantic relations and communicating who does what to whom in spontaneous
gesture system. In particular, I am looking at whether English hearing adults
would modify location or movement of gesture according to the semantic roles.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:cwcso@uchicago.edu">cwcso@uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Susan Wagner</b>
<p>My work investigates the cognitive representations associated with gesture production and perception. I am particularly interested in what can be learned about cognitive processes through investigation of non-linguistic representation.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:swagner@midway.uchicago.edu">swagner@midway.uchicago.edu</a></p>
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<li><b>Elif Yalabik</b>
<p>I am interested in relatively closed and self-created gesture systems as the sole means of signification as well as the ways in which these systems are intricately related to sociality. I work in projects that explore these semiotic phenomena.</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:eyalabik@midway.uchicago.edu">eyalabik@midway.uchicago.edu</a></p>
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