List of works - Sotaro Kita

"Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning": Correction.

scientific article published in 2022

Attention to Speech-Accompanying Gestures: Eye Movements and Information Uptake.

scientific article published on 19 July 2009

Children use gesture to interpret novel verb meanings.

scientific article published on 22 November 2013

Co-thought and co-speech gestures are generated by the same action generation process

scientific article published on 3 August 2015

Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture: motion events in English and Turkish.

scientific article published on July 2008

Gesture and speech integration: an exploratory study of a man with aphasia

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Hand matters: Left-hand gestures enhance metaphor explanation.

scientific article

How do gestures influence thinking and speaking? The gesture-for-conceptualization hypothesis

scientific article

Individual Differences in Children's Corepresentation of Self and Other in Joint Action.

scientific article published on 14 December 2016

Individual differences in frequency and saliency of speech-accompanying gestures: the role of cognitive abilities and empathy

scientific article published on 05 August 2013

Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning.

scientific article published in 2022

Seeing Iconic Gesture Promotes First- and Second-Order Verb Generalization in Preschoolers

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Semantics is crucial for the right-hemisphere involvement in metaphor processing: evidence from mouth asymmetry during speaking

scientific article published on 30 August 2014

Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds.

scientific article

Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants.

scientific article published on 16 September 2014

Spontaneous gestures influence strategy choices in problem solving.

scientific article published on 3 August 2011

The Development of the Ability to Semantically Integrate Information in Speech and Iconic Gesture in Comprehension.

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

The development of co-representation effects in a joint task: do children represent a co-actor?

scientific article published on 20 May 2014

The listener automatically uses spatial story representations from the speaker's cohesive gestures when processing subsequent sentences without gestures.

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving.

scientific article published in February 2011

The role of synchrony and ambiguity in speech-gesture integration during comprehension.

scientific article

The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

scientific article

When do speakers use gestures to specify who does what to whom? The role of language proficiency and type of gestures in narratives.

scientific article published on December 2013

Young children make their gestural communication systems more language-like: segmentation and linearization of semantic elements in motion events.

scientific article published on 04 June 2014

List of works by Sotaro Kita

"Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning": Correction.

Attention to Speech-Accompanying Gestures: Eye Movements and Information Uptake.

Children use gesture to interpret novel verb meanings.

Co-thought and co-speech gestures are generated by the same action generation process

Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture: motion events in English and Turkish.

Gesture and speech integration: an exploratory study of a man with aphasia

Hand matters: Left-hand gestures enhance metaphor explanation.

How do gestures influence thinking and speaking? The gesture-for-conceptualization hypothesis

Individual Differences in Children's Corepresentation of Self and Other in Joint Action.

Individual differences in frequency and saliency of speech-accompanying gestures: the role of cognitive abilities and empathy

Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning.

Seeing Iconic Gesture Promotes First- and Second-Order Verb Generalization in Preschoolers

Semantics is crucial for the right-hemisphere involvement in metaphor processing: evidence from mouth asymmetry during speaking

Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds.

Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants.

Spontaneous gestures influence strategy choices in problem solving.

The Development of the Ability to Semantically Integrate Information in Speech and Iconic Gesture in Comprehension.

The development of co-representation effects in a joint task: do children represent a co-actor?

The listener automatically uses spatial story representations from the speaker's cohesive gestures when processing subsequent sentences without gestures.

The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving.

The role of synchrony and ambiguity in speech-gesture integration during comprehension.

The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution

When do speakers use gestures to specify who does what to whom? The role of language proficiency and type of gestures in narratives.

Young children make their gestural communication systems more language-like: segmentation and linearization of semantic elements in motion events.