Multimedia Your News Get information from other campus newsrooms View all events at the University's main calendar Blind adults’ gestures resemble those of other native speakers Study shows people gesture as function of learning language itself April 25, 2016 When people talk, how they gesture depends on the language they speak. including blind and sighted participants suggest that these gestural variations do not emerge from watching other speakers, but from learning the language itself. “Adult speakers who are blind from birth also gesture when they talk, and these gestures resemble the gestures of sighted adults speaking the same language. This is quite interesting, since blind speakers cannot be learning these language-specific gestures by watching other speakers gesture,” said Şeyda Ö
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