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sunny today so now I am on a walk. anybody ever notice there's stuff outside of the house? like trees and birds and even other houses.. wild
He hates labels
Today's Canonically Autistic Character is: Abed Nadir from Community
Blind people gesture (and why that’s kind of a big deal)
People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now I’ve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.
Blind people will even gesture when talking to other blind people, and sighted people will gesture when speaking on the phone - so we know that people don’t only gesture when they speak to someone who can see their gestures.
Earlier this year a new paper came out that adds to this story. Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the *way* they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded and others left able to see their conversation partner.
Turkish and English were chosen, because it has already been established that speakers of those languages consistently gesture differently when talking about videos of items moving. English speakers will be more likely to show the manner (e.g. ‘rolling’ or bouncing’) and trajectory (e.g. ‘left to right’, ‘downwards’) together in one gesture, and Turkish speakers will show these features as two separate gestures. This reflects the fact that English ‘roll down’ is one verbal clause, while in Turkish the equivalent would be yuvarlanarak iniyor, which translates as two verbs ‘rolling descending’.
Since we know that blind people do gesture, Özçalışkan’s team wanted to figure out if they gestured like other speakers of their language. Did the blind Turkish speakers separate the manner and trajectory of their gestures like their verbs? Did English speakers combine them? Of course, the standard methodology of showing videos wouldn’t work with blind participants, so the researchers built three dimensional models of events for people to feel before they discussed them.
The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something that’s deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.
References
Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature, 396(6708), 228-228.
Şeyda Özçalışkan, Ché Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2016. Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker? Psychological Science 27(5) 737–747.
Asli Ozyurek & Sotaro Kita. 1999. Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish: Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization. In Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 507-512). Erlbaum.
Since GRRM is taking so long to finish Winds of Winter and the rest of ASOIF, here’s some visual concepts of that one moment we’ve all been waiting for … Jon Snow holding Lightbringer. Created with Midjourney.
Femboy Friday!
Femboy Friday's first [official] post!
what is femboy friday you ask? a femboy (me :D) wanting to celebrate other femboys, so frens and i started coming up with themes to do each week.
ive had a few asks about what the themes are, so im planning on posting them each week :D
Wanna Participate?
Awesome! I hope you do :3
Pretty much do whatever you want. Create a sim, use an existing sim, doesn't matter. There's no right or wrong way to dress up your blorbs. While we have a theme each week, you're of course welcome to build whomever you like.
tag me (@gloomiegalaxie) and/or use #gloomie's femboy friday in the tags so i know to reblog :3
This week's theme: Monochromatic Gray!
Past themes:
cottagecore
faeries
jfashion
horoscopes
drag
fat
video games
merfolk
eboys
middle aged
bald
pride
heatwave
cryptids
beach fits
just stared reading six of crows... what do you mean nina and matthias?? oh i DON'T LIKE THIS
specific book couple tropes: “if only we had more time”
evelyn and celia - the seven husbands of evelyn hugo
rufus and mateo - they both die at the end
nina and matthias - six of crows
achilles and patroclus - the song of achilles
big fan of polite and minimal explanations when you need to get out of work, school, plans etc. just a definitive ‘sorry but I can’t make it today.’ and then if they press for details or are rude about it say ‘sorry, something came up. thanks for understanding’ i’m over the idea that you have to exaggerate/overexplain your situation even when you don’t want to do that to be worthy of flexibility and grace in your life
Slightly Fishy Alley
(for SWILL, an upcoming game by Max Fitzgerald. Posters are available as a sheet of printouts for your own ramshackle buildings! https://www.patreon.com/posts/adverts-and-98215139)
i hafta do a project for math, but i left to go get a bandaid when everyone paired up, and all my friends are working together and i have to work alone :(
does anyone wanna be my project partner? you don't hafta do anything it's just symbolic
Hi so sometimes I post funny things on Twitter so like idk you don’t have to but uhhhh
My username is: 1963_mia
Okay heh love you guys byeeeee
paper sculpture i made a while back :)
