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Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture
An unprecedented number of empirical studies have shown that iconic gestures—those that mimic the sensorimotor attributes of a referent—contribute significantly to language acquisition, perception, and processing. However, there has been a lack of normed studies describing generalizable principles i...
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description | An unprecedented number of empirical studies have shown that iconic gestures—those that mimic the sensorimotor attributes of a referent—contribute significantly to language acquisition, perception, and processing. However, there has been a lack of normed studies describing generalizable principles in gesture production and in comprehension of the mappings of different types of iconic strategies (i.e., modes of representation; Müller, 2013). In Study 1 we elicited silent gestures in order to explore the implementation of different types of iconic representation (i.e., acting, representing, drawing, and personification) to express concepts across five semantic domains. In Study 2 we investigated the degree of meaning transparency (i.e., iconicity ratings) of the gestures elicited in Study 1. We found systematicity in the gestural forms of 109 concepts across all participants, with different types of iconicity aligning with specific semantic domains: Acting was favored for actions and manipulable objects, drawing for nonmanipulable objects, and personification for animate entities. Interpretation of gesture–meaning transparency was modulated by the interaction between mode of representation and semantic domain, with some couplings being more transparent than others: Acting yielded higher ratings for actions, representing for object-related concepts, personification for animate entities, and drawing for nonmanipulable entities. This study provides mapping principles that may extend to all forms of manual communication (gesture and sign). This database includes a list of the most systematic silent gestures in the group of participants, a notation of the form of each gesture based on four features (hand configuration, orientation, placement, and movement), each gesture’s mode of representation, iconicity ratings, and professionally filmed videos that can be used for experimental and clinical endeavors. |
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spelling | pubmed-70050912020-02-25 Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture Ortega, Gerardo Özyürek, Aslı Behav Res Methods Article An unprecedented number of empirical studies have shown that iconic gestures—those that mimic the sensorimotor attributes of a referent—contribute significantly to language acquisition, perception, and processing. However, there has been a lack of normed studies describing generalizable principles in gesture production and in comprehension of the mappings of different types of iconic strategies (i.e., modes of representation; Müller, 2013). In Study 1 we elicited silent gestures in order to explore the implementation of different types of iconic representation (i.e., acting, representing, drawing, and personification) to express concepts across five semantic domains. In Study 2 we investigated the degree of meaning transparency (i.e., iconicity ratings) of the gestures elicited in Study 1. We found systematicity in the gestural forms of 109 concepts across all participants, with different types of iconicity aligning with specific semantic domains: Acting was favored for actions and manipulable objects, drawing for nonmanipulable objects, and personification for animate entities. Interpretation of gesture–meaning transparency was modulated by the interaction between mode of representation and semantic domain, with some couplings being more transparent than others: Acting yielded higher ratings for actions, representing for object-related concepts, personification for animate entities, and drawing for nonmanipulable entities. This study provides mapping principles that may extend to all forms of manual communication (gesture and sign). This database includes a list of the most systematic silent gestures in the group of participants, a notation of the form of each gesture based on four features (hand configuration, orientation, placement, and movement), each gesture’s mode of representation, iconicity ratings, and professionally filmed videos that can be used for experimental and clinical endeavors. Springer US 2019-02-20 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7005091/ /pubmed/30788798 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01204-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Ortega, Gerardo Özyürek, Aslı Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture |
title | Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture |
title_full | Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture |
title_fullStr | Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture |
title_full_unstemmed | Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture |
title_short | Systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: A normed database of silent gesture |
title_sort | systematic mappings between semantic categories and types of iconic representations in the manual modality: a normed database of silent gesture |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7005091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30788798 http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01204-6 |
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