Naomi Cocks

List of John Benjamins publications for which Naomi Cocks plays a role.

Journal

Gesture (GEST)

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church

ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773

Articles

Cocks, Naomi, Gary Morgan and Sotaro Kita 2011 Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults Gesture 11:1, pp. 24–39 | Article

This study investigated the impact of age on iconic gesture and speech integration. The performance of a group of older adults (60–76 years) and a group of younger adults (22–30 years) were compared on a task which required the comprehension of information presented in 3 different conditions:… read more

Dipper, Lucy, Naomi Cocks, Melanie Rowe and Gary Morgan 2011 What can co-speech gestures in aphasia tell us about the relationship between language and gesture? A single case study of a participant with Conduction Aphasia Gesture 11:2, pp. 123–147 | Article

Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that language typology influences how people gesture when using ‘manner-of-motion’ verbs (Kita 2000; Kita & Özyürek 2003) and that this is due to ‘online’ lexical and syntactic choices made at the time of speaking (Kita, Özyürek, Allen, Brown, Furman & Ishizuka,… read more