Browsing by ORCID "Ozer, Demet/0000-0003-3230-2874"
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Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings
Ozder, Levent Emir; Ozer, Demet; Goksun, Tilbe (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)Bilinguals tend to produce more co-speech hand gestures to compensate for reduced communicative proficiency when speaking in their L2. We here investigated L1-Turkish and L2-English speakers' gesture use in an emotional ... -
Gestures Cued by Demonstratives in Speech Guide Listeners' Visual Attention During Spatial Language Comprehension
Ozer, Demet; Karadoller, Dilay Z.; Ozyurek, Asli; Goksun, Tilbe (Amer Psychological Assoc, 2023)Gestures help speakers and listeners during communication and thinking, particularly for visual-spatial information. Speakers tend to use gestures to complement the accompanying spoken deictic constructions, such as ... -
Multimodal language in child-directed versus adult-directed speech
Kandemir, Songul; Ozer, Demet; Aktan-Erciyes, Asli (Sage Publications Ltd, 2023)Speakers design their multimodal communication according to the needs and knowledge of their interlocutors, phenomenon known as audience design. We use more sophisticated language (e.g., longer sentences with complex ...