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Participants were told to use their hands while they spoke to encourage gestures.
This is important, because blind speakers gesture much less often spontaneously 
than sighted speakers. The researchers analyzed both the sentences people 
produced to describe the scenes as well as the gestures they made. 
Unsurprisingly, the speech produced by blind and sighted speakers of a 
given language was similar. Blind and sighted speakers of English used sentences 
that combined the manner and direction of motion. Speakers of Turkish used 
sentences that separated the manner from the direction.

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Interestingly, the gestures of blind speakers of a particular language were 
also similar to the gestures of sighted speakers. Turkish were most likely to make 
gestures that focused on the direction of the motion. These results suggest that 
native speakers of a language use the natural way of talking about events to 
structure the gestures they make that relate to those events. Even though, blind 
speakers have never seen the gestures made by native speakers, they still make 
gestures that are like those of sighted speakers of their language.
All in all, there is still an ongoing debate in the language literature about the 
function of these gestures. It is natural to assume that people make these gestures 
to help listeners to understand the sentence being spoken. However, some 
researchers have argued that the gestures actually help speakers which not only 
sighted but also blind speakers‘to produce sentences clearly. 
REFERENCES: 
1. 
Christopher Turk. ―Effective speaking. Communicating in speech‖ Spon Press, 
1985. 
2. 
Art Marksman ―Psychological Science‖ on issue May 2016. 
3. Vygotskiy.L. 
S, ―Thought and Language‖. Cambridge Press, 1962. 
4. 
Sheerin.S ―Self access‖. Oxford-Oxford Press, 1989. 
5. 
Ross, Raymond.S ―Essentials of speech communications‖, 1984. 

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