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30: Why do we gesture when we talk?

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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The Gesture and the Rotation Task

There is a lot of work in the kind of teaching space that the gesture really helps with acquiring a kind of abstract, complex mathematical concepts. We can often make people more disfluent by preventing them from moving their hands while they talk. Oco and if we delay the way some one speaks, so they hear their own voice back, like a few milly seconds afterwards, ah, it di completely disrup their ability to gesture. Is yonster wa really, really mean? It's true. Some of the gester firmes often sound a bit mean. And we can really mess this up for people. By putting head phones on and delaying their speech by just a fraction of

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