Review of research on gesture

[anne marie devlin]

Don't think it's been mentioned before, but there's some interesting work on the role of gesture in second language acquisition.  Stam (2010) highlights the correlation between gestural and linguistic expressions of 'path' and 'motion' in a Spanish learner of English. She also published the first (and possibly only) book on SLA and geatures.
Anne Marie

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> To: randy.lapolla at gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 04:54:30 +0000
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> All of these are important names. But the influence behind a lot of this was Pike. 
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> > On May 13, 2014, at 7:39, "Randy LaPolla" <randy.lapolla at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, Bolinger was way ahead of the pack very early on in many ways (like Wally). Another one who has always taken prosody seriously is Michael Halliday (being a student of Firth probably helped in that regard!), seeing it as part of the grammar. Bill Greaves, who wrote a book with Michael on Intonation in English (M.A.K. Halliday and W. Greaves, Intonation in the Grammar of English, LONDON: EQUINOX. 2008. PP. IX, 224. CD ROM) will not talk about linguistic forms without intonation, calling them "dead words"!
> > 
> > Randy
> > 
> >> On May 13, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Sherman Wilcox wrote:
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> >> One of my favorite people to read about this is Dwight Bolinger, especially "Intonation and Its Parts" and also his wonderful essay in American Speech, "Intonation and Gesture."
> >> -- 
> >> Sherman
> >> 
> >>> On 12 May 2014, at 16:58, Wallace Chafe wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I have no wish to stir up another hornet's nest on this topic, but I
> >>> wanted to point to something I think has already been mentioned in
> >>> passing a couple times: that is, parallels between gesture and prosody
> >>> (pitch, volume, timing, and voice quality). At least some of the uses of
> >>> prosody appear to have things in common with gesture, and one might even
> >>> think of prosody as gesturing by the lungs and larynx. Speaking in a
> >>> monotone is a little like speaking with one's hands tied behind one's back.
> >>> 
> >>> --Wally
> >