What’s New? Gestures Accompany Inferable Rather Than Brand-New Referents in Discourse

The literature on bimodal discourse reference has shown that gestures are sensitive to referents’ information status in discourse. Gestures occur more often with new referents/first mentions than with given referents/subsequent mentions. However, because not all new entities at first mention occur w...

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Main Authors: Sandra Debreslioska, Marianne Gullberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01935/full