Department of Psychology2024-11-0920172327-379810.1080/23273798.2016.12766072-s2.0-85009476412http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1276607https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/9199The current study examines how gestural representations of motion events arise from linguistic expressions in Farsi, as this language offers many unique characteristics; exhibiting characteristics of both Talmy's satellite- and verb-framed languages. We examined native Farsi speakers' speech and gestures in describing 20 motion events. We focused on two motion event components: path (trajectory of motion like up) and manner (how the action is performed like jumping). Analyses of syntactic packaging and clause-level correspondence between speech and gesture, as well as parallel ordering of speech and gesture sequences were, for the most part, in support of models that posit a close correspondence between speech-gesture production. However, while Farsi speakers described both path and manner in their speech, gesture was markedly impoverished for manner, suggesting constraints on the one-to-one mapping between linguistic and gestural expressions.AudiologySpeech-language pathologyBehavioral sciencesLinguisticsPsychologyExperimentalJournal Article2327-380140081690001463