Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages

Name: Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages
Author: Bekke, M. t., Özyürek, A., Ünal, Ercenur

İsim	Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages
Yazar	Bekke, M. t., Özyürek, A., Ünal, Ercenur
Basım Tarihi:	2019
Basım Yeri	- The Cognitive Science Society
Konu	Co-speech gesture, Cross-linguistic differences, Memory, Motion events
Tür	Belge
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	978-099119677-7
Kayıt Numarası	d788e00d-c1e6-427d-8ccd-ba4547745974
Lokasyon	Psychology
Tarih	2019
Notlar	NWO-VICI
Örnek Metin	In everyday life, people see, describe and remember motion events. We tested whether the type of motion event information (path or manner) encoded in speech and gesture predicts which information is remembered and if this varies across speakers of typologically different languages. We focus on intransitive motion events (e.g., a woman running to a tree) that are described differently in speech and co-speech gesture across languages, based on how these languages typologically encode manner and path information (Kita & Özyürek, 2003; Talmy, 1985). Speakers of Dutch (n = 19) and Turkish (n = 22) watched and described motion events. With a surprise (i.e. unexpected) recognition memory task, memory for manner and path components of these events was measured. Neither Dutch nor Turkish speakers' memory for manner went above chance levels. However, we found a positive relation between path speech and path change detection: participants who described the path during encoding were more accurate at detecting changes to the path of an event during the memory task. In addition, the relation between path speech and path memory changed with native language: for Dutch speakers encoding path in speech was related to improved path memory, but for Turkish speakers no such relation existed. For both languages, co-speech gesture did not predict memory speakers. We discuss the implications of these findings for our understanding of the relations between speech, gesture, type of encoding in language and memory.

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Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages

Yazar Bekke, M. t., Özyürek, A., Ünal, Ercenur

Basım Tarihi 2019

Basım Yeri - The Cognitive Science Society

Konu Co-speech gesture, Cross-linguistic differences, Memory, Motion events

Tür Belge

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 978-099119677-7

Kayıt Numarası d788e00d-c1e6-427d-8ccd-ba4547745974

Lokasyon Psychology

Tarih 2019

Notlar NWO-VICI

Örnek Metin In everyday life, people see, describe and remember motion events. We tested whether the type of motion event information (path or manner) encoded in speech and gesture predicts which information is remembered and if this varies across speakers of typologically different languages. We focus on intransitive motion events (e.g., a woman running to a tree) that are described differently in speech and co-speech gesture across languages, based on how these languages typologically encode manner and path information (Kita & Özyürek, 2003; Talmy, 1985). Speakers of Dutch (n = 19) and Turkish (n = 22) watched and described motion events. With a surprise (i.e. unexpected) recognition memory task, memory for manner and path components of these events was measured. Neither Dutch nor Turkish speakers' memory for manner went above chance levels. However, we found a positive relation between path speech and path change detection: participants who described the path during encoding were more accurate at detecting changes to the path of an event during the memory task. In addition, the relation between path speech and path memory changed with native language: for Dutch speakers encoding path in speech was related to improved path memory, but for Turkish speakers no such relation existed. For both languages, co-speech gesture did not predict memory speakers. We discuss the implications of these findings for our understanding of the relations between speech, gesture, type of encoding in language and memory.