Yasamin Motamedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3438618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasamin Motamedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Motamedi |
| SIGNATURE | MOTAMEDI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ford Motor Company (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8846-5387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Language development beyond the here-and-now
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically available. One possibility is that iconic cues that imagistically evoke properties of absent referents support learning when referents are displaced. In an audio-visual corpus of caregiver–child dyads, English-speaking caregivers interacted with their children (N = 71…
From improvisation to learning
Silent gesture studies, in which hearing participants from different linguistic backgrounds produce gestures to communicate events, have been used to test hypotheses about the cognitive biases that govern cross-linguistic word order preferences. In particular, the differential use of SOV and SVO order to communicate, respectively, extensional events (where the direct object exists independently of the event; e.g., girl throws ball) and intensiona…
The Seeds of the Noun-Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality
The noun-verb distinction has long been considered a fundamental property of human language, and has been found in some form even in the earliest stages of language emergence, including homesign and the early generations of emerging sign languages. We present two experimental studies that use silent gesture to investigate how noun-verb distinctions develop in the manual modality through two key processes: (i) improvising using novel signals by in…
Language is less arbitrary than one thinks
In the last decade, a growing body of work has convincingly demonstrated that languages embed a certain degree of non-arbitrariness (mostly in the form of iconicity, namely the presence of imagistic links between linguistic form and meaning). Most of this previous work has been limited to assessing the degree (and role) of non-arbitrariness in the speech (for spoken languages) or manual components of signs (for sign languages). When approached in…
Onomatopoeia, gestures, actions and words
Most research on how children learn the mapping between words and world has assumed that language is arbitrary, and has investigated language learning in contexts in which objects referred to are present in the environment. Here, we report analyses of a semi-naturalistic corpus of caregivers talking to their 2-3 year-old. We focus on caregivers' use of non-arbitrary cues across different expressive channels: both iconic (onomatopoeia and represen…
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Onomatopoeia, gestures, actions and words
Most research on how children learn the mapping between words and world has assumed that language is arbitrary, and has investigated language learning in contexts in which objects referred to are present in the environment. Here, we report analyses of a semi-naturalistic corpus of caregivers talking to their 2-3 year-old. We focus on caregivers' use of non-arbitrary cues across different expressive channels: both iconic (onomatopoeia and represen…
Language is less arbitrary than one thinks
In the last decade, a growing body of work has convincingly demonstrated that languages embed a certain degree of non-arbitrariness (mostly in the form of iconicity, namely the presence of imagistic links between linguistic form and meaning). Most of this previous work has been limited to assessing the degree (and role) of non-arbitrariness in the speech (for spoken languages) or manual components of signs (for sign languages). When approached in…
From improvisation to learning
Silent gesture studies, in which hearing participants from different linguistic backgrounds produce gestures to communicate events, have been used to test hypotheses about the cognitive biases that govern cross-linguistic word order preferences. In particular, the differential use of SOV and SVO order to communicate, respectively, extensional events (where the direct object exists independently of the event; e.g., girl throws ball) and intensiona…
The Seeds of the Noun-Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality
The noun-verb distinction has long been considered a fundamental property of human language, and has been found in some form even in the earliest stages of language emergence, including homesign and the early generations of emerging sign languages. We present two experimental studies that use silent gesture to investigate how noun-verb distinctions develop in the manual modality through two key processes: (i) improvising using novel signals by in…
Language development beyond the here-and-now
Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically available. One possibility is that iconic cues that imagistically evoke properties of absent referents support learning when referents are displaced. In an audio-visual corpus of caregiver–child dyads, English-speaking caregivers interacted with their children (N = 71…
Hearing Impairment and Communication (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Iconicity (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Communication (2 works) · Gesture (2 works) · Indexicality (2 works) · Language acquisition (2 works)