Kateřina Fibigerová

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kateřina Fibigerová plays a role.

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Fibigerová, Kateřina and Michèle Guidetti 2022 Iconicity in gesture: How Czech children and adults use iconic gestures to deal with a gap between mental and linguistic representations of motion events Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems, Lenninger, Sara, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska (eds.), pp. 245–264 | Chapter
Our paper contributes to the discussion about iconicity by bringing attention to iconic co-speech gestures. We investigate their role in situations where mental representation becomes difficult to fully express through words only. For instance, when Czech speakers describe Motion, the lexicon… read more
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Fibigerová, Kateřina and Michèle Guidetti 2019 Structure of French expression of motion: Gesture-speech relation, between-language comparison and developmental perspective The Semantics of Dynamic Space in French: Descriptive, experimental and formal studies on motion expression, Aurnague, Michel and Dejan Stosic (eds.), pp. 290–319 | Chapter
This chapter contributes to the present discussion about the expression of motion in French by presenting a psycholinguistic study that focuses on how information about motion is structured not only in speech but also in co-speech gesture. Interested in developmental and cross-linguistic… read more
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Fibigerová, Kateřina and Michèle Guidetti 2018 The impact of language on gesture in descriptions of voluntary motion in Czech and French adults and children Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques, Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 101–136 | Article
The present study compares adults, five- and ten-year-old speakers of Czech (a satellite-framed language) and French (a verb-framed language) during the task of describing short animated videos displaying various voluntary motion events. In this research domain, Czech is a hitherto unexplored… read more
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Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti 2018 Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques, Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction
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Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta et Michèle Guidetti 2018 L’ expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’ espace: Nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’ âge et de différents environnements linguistiques Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques, Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 11–21 | Introduction
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Guidetti, Michèle, Kateřina Fibigerová and Jean-Marc Colletta 2014 Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 351–370 | Article
Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the emergence of the lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start to talk, and through to adulthood. In spite of… read more
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Fibigerová, Kateřina, Michèle Guidetti and Lenka Šulová 2012 11. Verbal and gestural expression of motion in French and Czech Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Language, culture, and cognition, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 251–268 | Article
The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the general discussion about conceptualisation of motion events in different languages and cultures (see also Engemann et al., HCP 36; Lewandowski, HCP 36; Filipović and Geva, this volume). This study examines how language specificities influence the way… read more