Catharine Wood

List of John Benjamins publications in which Catharine Wood is involved.

Article

Sekine, Kazuki, Catharine Wood and Sotaro Kita 2018 Gestural depiction of motion events in narrative increases symbolic distance with age Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques, Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 40–68 | Article

We examined gesture representation of motion events in narratives produced by three- and nine-year-olds, and adults. Two aspects of gestural depiction were analysed: how protagonists were depicted, and how gesture space was used. We found that older groups were more likely to express… read more