Language contact does not drive gesture transfer: Heritage speakers maintain language specific gesture patterns in each language

Z Azar, A Backus, A Özyürek - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2020 - cambridge.org
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 …

Having a different pointing of view about the future: The effect of signs on co-speech gestures about time in Mandarin–CSL bimodal bilinguals

Y Gu, Y Zheng, M Swerts - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019 - cambridge.org
Mandarin speakers often use gestures to represent time laterally, vertically, and sagittally.
Chinese Sign Language (CSL) users also exploit signs for that purpose, and can differ from …

Time in Chinese hands

Y Gu - Time Representations in the Perspective of Human …, 2022 - torrossa.com
This chapter examines how Chinese people (Mandarin monolinguals; Mandarin-English
bilinguals; deaf Chinese Sign Language (CSL) signers; Mandarin learners of CSL) use …

Locating past and future: the influence of spatial ability on memory of items and time

E Otenen, J Kanero - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
The representation of time depends heavily on spatial skills. Saj et al.(Psychological
Science, 25 (1), 207–214, 2014) established that left-hemispatial neglect leads to a selective …

Locating past and future: the influence of spatial ability on time representation

E Otenen, J Kanero - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2022 - escholarship.org
The representation of time depends heavily on spatial skills. Saj et al.(2014) demonstrated
that left-hemispatial neglect patients, who lost the ability to detect objects in their left visual …

Space-Time Mapping in Turkish: A Corpus-Based, Crosslinguistic Investigation

A Kumcu - 2022 - avesis.hacettepe.edu.tr
Space and time are the most central and closely related domains of human cognition. While
our embodied spatial experience is considered as relatively more concrete and perceptually …

[HTML][HTML] Representation of Mental Timeline in the Language Structure of Persian Speakers

H Matoori, E Veysi, B Gorjian… - … (Journal of Language …, 2021 - jlr.alzahra.ac.ir
1. INTRODUCTIONOne of the metaphors that has gained a lot of attention is “Time is
Space”. This Metaphor is based on a theory that we perceive an abstract concept like time …