Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Language in its primary face-to-face context is multimodal (e.g., Holler and Levinson, 2019; Perniss, 2018). Thus, understanding how expressions in the vocal and visual modalities together contribute to our notions of language structure, use, processing, and transmission (i.e., acquisition, evolutio...
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| description | Language in its primary face-to-face context is multimodal (e.g., Holler and Levinson, 2019; Perniss, 2018). Thus, understanding how expressions in the vocal and visual modalities together contribute to our notions of language structure, use, processing, and transmission (i.e., acquisition, evolution, emergence) in different languages and cultures should be a fundamental goal of language sciences. This requires a new framework of language that brings together how arbitrary and non-arbitrary and motivated semiotic resources of language relate to each other. Current commentary evaluates such a proposal by Murgiano et al (2021) from a crosslinguistic perspective taking variation as well as systematicity in multimodal utterances into account. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d068a9a67e454ef3bae9e737f64c80192022-12-21T18:51:52ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Cognition2514-48202021-08-014110.5334/joc.165192Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic PerspectiveAsli Özyürek0Donders Institute Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Center for Language Studies, Radboud University and Max Planck Institute for PsycholinguisticsLanguage in its primary face-to-face context is multimodal (e.g., Holler and Levinson, 2019; Perniss, 2018). Thus, understanding how expressions in the vocal and visual modalities together contribute to our notions of language structure, use, processing, and transmission (i.e., acquisition, evolution, emergence) in different languages and cultures should be a fundamental goal of language sciences. This requires a new framework of language that brings together how arbitrary and non-arbitrary and motivated semiotic resources of language relate to each other. Current commentary evaluates such a proposal by Murgiano et al (2021) from a crosslinguistic perspective taking variation as well as systematicity in multimodal utterances into account.https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/165embodied cognitionlanguage productionword processing |
| spellingShingle | Asli Özyürek Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective Journal of Cognition embodied cognition language production word processing |
| title | Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective |
| title_full | Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective |
| title_short | Considering the Nature of Multimodal Language from a Crosslinguistic Perspective |
| title_sort | considering the nature of multimodal language from a crosslinguistic perspective |
| topic | embodied cognition language production word processing |
| url | https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/165 |
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