Language contact does not drive gesture transfer:Heritage speakers maintain language specific gesture patterns in each language
This paper investigates whether there are changes in gesture rate when speakers of two languages with different gesture rates (Turkish-high gesture; Dutch-low gesture) come into daily contact. We analyzed gestures produced by second-generation heritage speakers of Turkish in the Netherlands in each language, comparing them to monolingual baselines. We did not find differences between bilingual and monolingual speakers, possibly because bilinguals were proficient in both languages and used them frequently - in line with a usage-based approach to language. However, bilinguals produced more deict... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Azar , Z , Backus , A & Özyürek , A 2020 , ' Language contact does not drive gesture transfer : Heritage speakers maintain language specific gesture patterns in each language ' , Bilingualism-Language and Cognition , vol. 23 , no. 2 , pp. 414-428 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S136672891900018X |
Schlagwörter: | bilingualism / Dutch / gesture rate / language contact / Turkish |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27448269 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/publications/b609af05-17ab-421a-b6ca-8bc2161ae4ed |