Search Results - "Özyürek, Asli"

Visual Context Enhanced: The Joint Contribution of Iconic Gestures and Visible Speech to Degraded Speech Comprehension by Drijvers, Linda, Ozyurek, Asli

“…Purpose: This study investigated whether and to what extent iconic co-speech gestures contribute to information from visible speech to enhance degraded speech…”
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Alignment in Multimodal Interaction: An Integrative Framework by Rasenberg, Marlou, Özyürek, Asli, Dingemanse, Mark

“…When people are engaged in social interaction, they can repeat aspects of each other’s communicative behavior, such as words or gestures. This kind of…”
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Non-native Listeners Benefit Less from Gestures and Visible Speech than Native Listeners During Degraded Speech Comprehension by Drijvers, Linda, Özyürek, Asli

“…Native listeners benefit from both visible speech and iconic gestures to enhance degraded speech comprehension (Drijvers & Ozyürek, 2017). We tested how highly…”
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Native language status of the listener modulates the neural integration of speech and iconic gestures in clear and adverse listening conditions by Drijvers, Linda, Özyürek, Asli

“…•Natives and non-natives neurally integrate speech and gestures differently.•Native listeners show an N400 effect in clear and degraded speech.•Non-native…”
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Hearing and seeing meaning in noise: Alpha, beta, and gamma oscillations predict gestural enhancement of degraded speech comprehension by Drijvers, Linda, Özyürek, Asli, Jensen, Ole

“…During face‐to‐face communication, listeners integrate speech with gestures. The semantic information conveyed by iconic gestures (e.g., a drinking gesture)…”
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Degree of Language Experience Modulates Visual Attention to Visible Speech and Iconic Gestures During Clear and Degraded Speech Comprehension by Drijvers, Linda, Vaitonytė, Julija, Özyürek, Asli

“…Visual information conveyed by iconic hand gestures and visible speech can enhance speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions for both native and…”
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Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua by Senghas, Ann, Kita, Sotaro, Özyürek, Aslı

“…A new sign language has been created by deaf Nicaraguans over the past 25 years, providing an opportunity to observe the inception of universal hallmarks of…”
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Hearing non-signers use their gestures to predict iconic form-meaning mappings at first exposure to signs by Ortega, Gerardo, Schiefner, Annika, Özyürek, Aslı

“…The sign languages of deaf communities and the gestures produced by hearing people are communicative systems that exploit the manual-visual modality as means…”
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The role of iconicity and simultaneity for efficient communication: The case of Italian Sign Language (LIS) by Slonimska, Anita, Özyürek, Asli, Capirci, Olga

“…A fundamental assumption about language is that, regardless of language modality, it faces the linearization problem, i.e., an event that occurs simultaneously…”
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What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking by Kita, Sotaro, Özyürek, Asli

“…Gestures that spontaneously accompany speech convey information coordinated with the concurrent speech. There has been considerable theoretical disagreement…”
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The multimodal nature of communicative efficiency in social interaction by Rasenberg, Marlou, Pouw, Wim, Özyürek, Asli, Dingemanse, Mark

“…How does communicative efficiency shape language use? We approach this question by studying it at the level of the dyad, and in terms of multimodal utterances…”
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Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input by Gentner, Dedre, Özyürek, Asli, Gürcanli, Özge, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…► Deaf children who lack linguistic input can develop their own ‘homesign’ language. ► We compared Turkish homesigners with matched hearing children on two…”
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Alpha and Beta Oscillations Index Semantic Congruency between Speech and Gestures in Clear and Degraded Speech by Drijvers, Linda, Özyürek, Asli, Jensen, Ole

“…Previous work revealed that visual semantic information conveyed by gestures can enhance degraded speech comprehension, but the mechanisms underlying these…”
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Simultaneity as an Emergent Property of Efficient Communication in Language: A Comparison of Silent Gesture and Sign Language by Slonimska, Anita, Özyürek, Asli, Capirci, Olga

“…Sign languages use multiple articulators and iconicity in the visual modality which allow linguistic units to be organized not only linearly but also…”
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Communicative intent modulates production and comprehension of actions and gestures: A Kinect study by Trujillo, James P., Simanova, Irina, Bekkering, Harold, Özyürek, Asli

“…Actions may be used to directly act on the world around us, or as a means of communication. Effective communication requires the addressee to recognize the act…”
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Visible Cohesion: A Comparison of Reference Tracking in Sign, Speech, and Co-Speech Gesture by Perniss, Pamela, Özyürek, Asli

“…Establishing and maintaining reference is a crucial part of discourse. In spoken languages, differential linguistic devices mark referents occurring in…”
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Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective by Özyürek, Asli

“…Language in its primary face-to-face context is multimodal (e.g., Holler and Levinson, 2019 ; Perniss, 2018). Thus, understanding how expressions in the vocal…”
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Toward the markerless and automatic analysis of kinematic features: A toolkit for gesture and movement research by Trujillo, James P., Vaitonyte, Julija, Simanova, Irina, Özyürek, Asli

“…Action, gesture, and sign represent unique aspects of human communication that use form and movement to convey meaning. Researchers typically use manual coding…”
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natural order of events: How speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally by Goldin-Meadow, Susan, So, Wing Chee, Özyürek, Aslı, Mylander, Carolyn

“…To test whether the language we speak influences our behavior even when we are not speaking, we asked speakers of four languages differing in their predominant…”
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Beat that Word: How Listeners Integrate Beat Gesture and Focus in Multimodal Speech Discourse by Dimitrova, Diana, Chu, Mingyuan, Wang, Lin, Özyürek, Asli, Hagoort, Peter

“…Communication is facilitated when listeners allocate their attention to important information (focus) in the message, a process called "information structure."…”
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