Michèle Guidetti

Michèle Guidetti

List of John Benjamins publications for which Michèle Guidetti plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism

Gesture and Multimodal Development

Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.
Subjects Cognitive psychology | Gesture Studies | Language acquisition | Signed languages

Gesture and Multimodal Development

Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.
Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages

Articles

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 | 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 | Chapter
Colletta, Jean-Marc, Ramona Kunene Nicolas and Michèle Guidetti. 2018. Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives: A cross-linguistic investigation of Zulu and French. Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 139–160
This chapter reports on a cross-linguistic developmental study comparing speech and gesture produced in narratives by adults and children speaking either French (a non-pro-drop Romance language) or Zulu (a pro-drop Bantu language). We asked 72 participants (French: 12 adults and 24 children; Zulu:… read more | Chapter
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 | Article
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Guidetti, Michèle and Aliyah Morgenstern. 2017. The gesture-sign interface in language acquisition. The gesture–sign interface in language acquisition / L’interface geste–signe dans l’acquisition du langage, Morgenstern, Aliyah and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 1–12
The aim of this special issue is to present and pursue the challenging discussions about the links between gestures and signs and their theoretical and methodological impact that took place during the GDR ADYLOC workshop (GDR CNRS 3195) on April 4–5 2014 at Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.… read more | Introduction
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
Guidetti, Michèle and Jean-Marc Colletta. 2012. Gesture and multimodal development. Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 1–6
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Guidetti, Michèle and Jean-Marc Colletta. 2010. Gesture and multimodal development. Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 123–128
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