Gesture Over Micro-Processing Time

Background reading

Hostetter, A. B., & M. W. Alibali.  Handing it to perception and action:  Gestures reflect embodied thinking.  Manuscript. PDF Tables Figures

2 Dimensions GP IW Material Carriers Modeling

Gesture Over Learning and Development Time

Broaders, S. C., Cook, S. W., Mitchell, Z., Goldin-Meadow, S. Making children gesture brings out implicit knowledge and leads to learning. under review. PDF

Cook, S. W., Mitchell, Z., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture makes learning last, under review. PDF Figures: 1, 2, 3

Goldin-Meadow, S. & Wagner, S. M.  How our hands help us learn. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2005, 9, 234-241. PDF

Goldin-Meadow, S. & Singer, M. A. From children’s hands to adults’ ears:  Gesture’s role in teaching and learning.  Developmental Psychology, 2003, 39 (3), 509-520. PDF

Singer, M. A., & Goldin-Meadow, S.  Children learn when their teachers’ gestures and speech differ.  Psychological Science, 2005, 16, 85-89. PDF

McNeill, D., Quek, F., McCullough K., Duncan, S., Furuyama, N., Bryll, R., Ma, X., & Ansari, R. Catchments, prosody, and discourse. Gesture, 2001, 1, 9-33. PDF: 1-3, 4-7, 8-25

Gesture Over Evolutionary Time

Arbib, M. A.  From monkey-like action recognition to human language:  An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005, 28, 105-124. PDF

McNeill, D., Bertenthal, B., Cole, J., & Gallagher, S.  Gesture-first, but no gestures? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005, 28, 138-139. (included in Arbib PDF)

McNeill, D., Duncan, S., Cole, J., Gallagher, S. & Bertentha, B. To appear. Either or Both: Growth points from the very beginning. Interaction Studies (Special Issue on Protolanguage, Derek Bickerton & Michael Arbib, eds.) PDF

Is The Growth Point a Mechanism of Change Over Short and Long Time Periods?

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Kita, S., & Özyürek, A.  What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?  Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking.  Journal of Memory and Language, 2003, 48, 16-32. PDF

Franklin, A. (2007). Blending in Deception: Tracing output back to its source. To appear in Duncan, Levy and Cassell (eds.) Language in Hand, Mind, and Context: A Festschrift Honoring David McNeill. PDF

Levy, E.  The construction of a temporally coherent narrative by an autistic adolescent:  Co-contributions of speech, enactment and gesture. To appear in Duncan, Levy and Cassell (eds.) Language in Hand, Mind, and Context: A Festschrift Honoring David McNeill. PDF: Part-1(pp.1-12) Table(p.13) Part-2(pp.14-18)

Kita, S., Özyürek, A., Allen, S., Brown, A., Furman, R., & Ishizuka, T. Relations between syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production. Language and Cognitive Processes, In Press. PDF

Alibali, M. W. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Modelling learning using evidence from speech and gesture. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1993, 203-209. PDF

Cassell, J. & McNeill, D. Gesture and the poetics of prose. Poetics Today, 1991, 12, 375 - 404. PDF

Catchments Over Time and Development

Montredon, J., Amrani, A., Benoit-Barnet, M-P, You, E. C., Llorca, R., & Peuteuil, N.  Catchment, growth point and spatial metaphor:  Analysing Derrida’s oral discourse on deconstruction.  Manuscript PDF. Plus demo PDF.

When are gestures syntactic?

Ozcaliskan, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S.  Gesture is at the cutting edge of early language development. Cognition, 2005, 96, B01-113. PDF

Gershkoff-Stowe, L., & Goldin-Meadow, S.  Is there a natural order for expressing semantic relations?  Cognitive Psychology, 2002, 45 (3), 375-412. PDF

Freyd, Jennifer J.  Shareability:  The social psychology epistemology.  Cognitive Science, 1983, 7, 191-210. PDF

Bickerton, Derek.  Language and species.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1990; chapter 5 (The fossils of language, pp. 105-129. PDF

McNeill, D., Duncan, S., Cole, J., Gallagher, S., & Bertenthal, B. Either of both: Growth points from the very beginning. To appear: Interaction Studies (Special Issue on Protolanguage, Derek Bickerton & Michael Arbib, eds.). PDF

Pollick, A. S. & de Waal, F. B. M. Ape gestures and language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 2007, 104 (19), 8184-8189. PDF

When are gestures morphemes?

McNeill, D.  Gesture and Thought.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 2005; chapter 2 (gesture and convention) pp. 48-53; PDF (also a look at Snow White in gesture)

Kendon, A.  Gesture:  Visible action as utterance.  N.Y.:  Cambridge University Press, 2004 (chapter 12, Gestures of ‘precision grip’: topic, comment and question markers, pp. 225-247). PDF

Singleton, J.L., Morford, J. P. & Goldin-Meadow, S.  Once is not enough:  Standards of well-formedness in manual communication created over three different timespans.  Language, 1993, 69, 683-715. PDF

Duncan, S. Visuo-spatio-motoric imagery and cohesion in normal and impaired discourse. PDF

Other possible topics

            Gesture and schizophrenic language (Jim Goss)

            Gesture and Parkinson’s (Sue Duncan)

            Gesture over distance (Sue Duncan)

            Gesture and metaphor and metonyms (Mika Ishino)

            Collaborative construction of gestures (Irena Kimbara)