Sotaro Kita (Professor)
 |
|
Interests: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology. Gestures that spontaneously accompany speaking and thinking, Development of language and gesture in children, Relationship between spatial language and cognition, Sound symbolism.
|
Representative Publications:
- Aussems, S., & Kita, S. (in press). Seeing iconic gesture promotes first- and second-order verb generalization in preschoolers. Child Development. (Open Access)
- Imai, M., & Kita, S. (2014). The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1651). Open Access accepted version:
- Senghas, A., Kita, S., & 脰zy眉rek, A. (2004). Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science, 305(5697), 1779-1782. Open Access Pre-Print:
- Kita, S., & 脰zy眉rek, A. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 16-32. Open Access accepted version:
- Fritz, I., Kita, S., Littlemore, J., & Krott, A. (2021). Multimodal language processing: How preceding discourse constrains gesture interpretation and affects gesture integration when gestures do not synchronise with semantic affiliates. Journal of Memory and Language, 117, 104191. doi: Open Access accepted version:
- Kita, S., Alibali, M. W., & Chu, M. (2017). How Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis. Psychological Review, 124(3), 245-266. Open Access accepted version:
Supervisor to:
Kirsty Green
Ying Guo
Mingtong Li
Melissa Reddy