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7 results for "co-speech gesture"

ZG_3_04 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_3_04 — Gesture and Body Language in Communication

Gesture and body language constitute a fundamental dimension of human communication that operates alongside, independently of, and sometimes in contradiction to spoken language. Research in kinesics (the study of body mo

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ZG_3_16 Credible Linguistics & Communication

ZG_3_16 — Sign Language Typology: Structure, Diversity, and the Linguistics of Gesture

Sign languages — natural human languages that use the visual-gestural modality rather than the vocal-auditory channel — are among the most powerful demonstrations that human linguistic capacity is not bound to speech. Th

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C_3_02 Verified Global Traditions

C_3_02 — Language Origins and the Tower of Babel

How did language begin? This is "the hardest problem in science" (Christiansen & Kirby 2003). The Linguistic Society of Paris banned all papers on language origins in 1866 because the topic produced more speculation than

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ZG_5_14 Credible Linguistics & Communication

ZG_5_14 — First Contact Linguistics: Bridging Languages at Points of Meeting

First contact linguistics examines how humans have communicated at moments of initial encounter between peoples who share no common language — one of the most fundamental and recurring situations in human history. From p

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ZG_1_20 Credible Linguistics & Communication

ZG_1_20 — Sign Language & Gestural Origins of Language

The study of sign languages has profoundly transformed our understanding of both language and its evolutionary origins — demonstrating that language is modality-independent (not inherently tied to speech) and providing c

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ZG_4_02 Verified Linguistics & Communication

ZG_4_02 — Sign Language — Gestural Communication and Deaf Culture

Sign languages are fully developed natural languages that use the visual-gestural modality — hands, face, body, and spatial relationships — instead of the auditory-vocal channel to express the same range of linguistic co

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T_5_03 Credible Psychology & Social

T_5_03 — Embodied and Social Cognition

Embodied cognition challenges the classical computational model of mind (cognition as abstract symbol manipulation, independent of the body) by proposing that cognitive processes are fundamentally shaped by the body's ph

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