Where Gesture Meets Grammar: Crosslinguistic Multimodal Communication

该项目旨在调查澳大利亚四种重要语言在言语和手势相互作用方面的差异和普遍趋势。在对交际的分析中，手势的关键作用常常被忽视。在这个项目中，来自语言学、手势和文化研究、心理学和认知科学的专家们合作，使用一种创新的方法来产生关于语言和手势如何相互作用以传达含义的新知识。该项目可以为我们理解语言和认知，多语言澳大利亚的跨文化交流，以及濒危语言的记录提供重要的好处。

This project aims to investigate both differences and universal tendencies in the interplay of speech and gesture across four languages of importance for Australia. The crucial role of gestures is often overlooked in the analysis of communication. In this project, specialists from linguistics, gesture and cultural studies, psychology and cognitive science collaborate using an innovative approach to generate new knowledge about how speech and gesture interact to communicate meaning. The project can provide significant benefits for our understanding of language and cognition, cross-cultural communication in multilingual Australia, and the documentation of endangered languages.