Rohrer, Patrick Louis (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
Human language is essentially multimodal in that speakers use multiple channels to convey meaning, including speech prosody and gesture (e.g. Mondada, 2016; Perniss, 2018). In the last decades, studies ...
Baills, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
Prosodic features of language such as prominence, melody, and rhythm, are frequently embodied by hand movements in face-to-face communication. However, little is known on the role of embodied techniques ...
Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid (Date of defense: 2020-06-30)
Co-speech gestures are children’s first path towards communication. Further in development, research has primarily focused on the role of iconic gestures in boosting children’s narrative abilities, ...
Zhang, Yuan (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two unique abilities of humankind, music and language. Music and language share important structural similarities ...
Peng, Li (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)
In the last few decades, the use of hand gestures that encode phonological features of the target language has been proven to play a positive role in L2 suprasegmental learning. However, less is known ...