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Asli Ozyurek
see also http://asliozyurek.ruhosting.nl
My research in general investigates the relations between meaningful bodily actions, language, cognition and communication. The underlying question is to what extent our bodily actions interact with or shape language, its processing, and use in 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).
My research is funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health, USA), VIDI-NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) as well as an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant for 5 years (see more on Research).
At the MPI my research is carried out under Language in our hands: Sign and Gesture project which I am heading. See http://www.mpi.nl/[…]/home
With dr. Judith Holler I co-ordinate the Nijmegen Gesture Centre of the Radboud University Nijmegen. See http://www.mpi.nl/[…]/nijmegen-gesture-centre-1
The Workshop Multimodality and Language Learning was organized in Nijmegen, June 2012: http://asliozyurek.ruhosting.nl/MMLL.html
My research in general investigates the relations between meaningful bodily actions, language, cognition and communication. The underlying question is to what extent our bodily actions interact with or shape language, its processing, and use in 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).
My research is funded by the NIH (National Institutes of Health, USA), VIDI-NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) as well as an ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grant for 5 years (see more on Research).
At the MPI my research is carried out under Language in our hands: Sign and Gesture project which I am heading. See http://www.mpi.nl/[…]/home
With dr. Judith Holler I co-ordinate the Nijmegen Gesture Centre of the Radboud University Nijmegen. See http://www.mpi.nl/[…]/nijmegen-gesture-centre-1
The Workshop Multimodality and Language Learning was organized in Nijmegen, June 2012: http://asliozyurek.ruhosting.nl/MMLL.html
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| Function: | Affiliated Researcher |
| Member of: | Center for Language Studies Group |
| Other Affiliations: | Professor, Linguistics Department, Radboud University Nijmegen Research Fellow, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior |
