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 Mar 2012: The Workshop Multimodality and Language Learning will be organised in Nijmegen, June 2012. more >

Asli Ozyurek