My research in general investigates the relations between meaningful bodily actions, language, cognition, and communication. I investigate this question in two domains of human communicative behavior in which body and language are closely related:

• gestures that speakers use spontaneously
• sign languages (established or emerging) used by deaf people

I use an interdisciplinary approach (linguistic and psychological) and a combination of methods and techniques such as linguistic analysis, comparative (developmental, cross-linguistic) and experimental methods as well as brain imaging (ERP, fMRI). See Gesture and Sign Language Lab (GSL) for more >

Latest publication Campisi, E., & Ozyurek, A. (2013). Iconicity as a communicative strategy: Recipient design in multimodal demonstrations for adults and children. Journal of Pragmatics. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2012.12.007. more >
Latest news Jun 2012: On June 20th, at 13.30h, Reyhan Furman defended her thesis "Caused Motion Events in Turkish: Verbal and Gestural Representations in Adults and Children" in the Aula of the Radboud University. more >

Asli Ozyurek