How people process nonliteral language has long been studied in the context of metaphorical expressions. Conventional metaphors seem to be processed differently...

In the dynamic and complex process of language development, some populations, like preterm-born children, are at risk of developing language delays. T…

This review synthesizes research findings on individuals' cospeech gesture production across four concepts (space, time, event, and emotion) that are encoded and expressed differently across language...

The present intervention study examines how parents' use of gestures changes the way they provide math talk to their children, and whether increased u…

2026 Graduate and Undergraduate Projects Apply to KUSRP Development of Communication and Languge; Interaction with Robots Aylin Küntay Psychology In person attendance required July 1-September 1, 2026...

The current study investigated the link between subdomains of spatial and math skills in preschool-aged full-term and preterm-born children. We assessed 238 English-speaking children living in the ...

Gestures can play a role in narrating emotionally valenced autobiographical events, particularly in second language use. We investigated how hand gestures, phen...

Narrative development in L1-Turkish children: A longitudinal examination of L2-English immersion effects - Volume 46

As part of the multimodal language system, gestures play a vital role for listeners, by capturing attention and providing information. Similarly, disfluencies serve as a cue for the listeners about o...

Iconicity ratings studies have established that there are many English words which native speakers judge as “iconic,” that is, as sounding like what they mean. Here, we explore whether these iconic E...

All languages in the world have demonstrative terms such as ‘this’ and ‘that’ in English, which have traditionally been treated as spatial words. Here…

How language interacts with metacognitive processes is an understudied area. Earlier research shows that people produce disfluencies (i.e., “uh” s or “um” s) in their speech when they are not sure of...