Where Gesture Meets Grammar: Crosslinguistic Multimodal Communication

该项目旨在调查澳大利亚四种重要语言中言语和手势相互作用的差异和普遍趋势。手势的重要作用在分析交流时常常被忽视。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使用创新的方法进行合作，以产生关于语音和手势如何相互作用以传达意义的新知识。该项目可以为我们理解语言和认知，在多语言澳大利亚的跨文化交流，濒危语言的文件提供显着的好处。

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.