Gesticulating while speaking is not just a “colourful” habit. A study carried out at SISSA in Trieste demonstrates that gestures, the intonation and rhythm of spoken language form a single “communication system” at the cognitive level, and that we speak using our “whole body” and not only our vocal tract: http://bit.ly/T2LfwA #linguistics

Gesticulating while speaking is not just a “colourful” habit. A study carried out at SISSA in Trieste demonstrates that gestures, the intonation and rhythm of spoken language form a single “communication system” at the cognitive level, and that we speak using our “whole body” and not only our vocal tract: http://bit.ly/T2LfwA
#linguistics