Актуальные научные исследования в современном мире iscience. In. Ua

«MODERN SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES AND TRENDS»
 
SCIENCECENTRUM.PL 
ISSUE 3 
ISBN 978-83-949403-3-1 
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What do you think how do people learn to make these gestures? 
It is clear answer to this question is that they see other speakers making 
these gestures, and so they may learn to make gestures and imitate during their 
speech by watching other speakers. An alternative possibility, though, is that there 
is something about particular languages that influences the gestures people make. 
Example: An English speaker might say, ―John ran toward the house.‖ This 
sentence packages together the manner of motion (running) and the direction 
(toward) in the same part of the sentence. We can compare one more languages 
here. Turkish speakers tend to separate the manner of motion and the direction 
when they are speaking. They might say something that translates to ―Jack moved 
toward the house running,‖ or they might even use separate sentences for the 
manner of movement and the direction. 
Sighted speakers of these languages also differ in the kinds of gestures they 
make when using these sentences. Speakers of English often use gestures that 
combine the manner of motion with the direction. They might move their fingers to 
simulate running while moving their hands from one place to another. Speakers of 
Turkish generally make gestures only for the direction of motion, though at times 
they will make separate gestures, one that indicates the direction and a second that 
corresponds to the manner of motion. 
Some researchers have experimented two kinds of participants. Participants 
were given scenes involving motions of an individual toward or away from a 
landmark. They were asked to describe the scenes. The scenes were constructed 
from foam boards so that blind participants could feel what they were describing. 
Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded for this task. Others were not.