Asli Ozyurek

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

Demir, Ö. E., So, W.-C., Ozyurek, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (2011). Turkish- and English-speaking children display sensitivity to perceptual context in referring expressions they produce in speech and gesture. Language and Cognitive Processes. Advance online publication. more >

Latest news

Asli Ozyurek (MPI and RU Nijmegen) has been appointed Professor of Gesture, Language and Cognition at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Ozyurek was appointed on September 1 and her inauguration will take place in Nijmegen, 26 May 2011 at 3:45pm. more >

 

Asli Ozyurek received an ERC grant (1,2 million) for studying modality (sign versus spoken) effects on learning to express spatial relations. more >