The relationship between speech and gestures in persons with aphasia: Evidence from the Czech perspective

Abstract

In my research, I replicate two fundamental hypotheses established by Jakob et al. (2011): 1) Persons with aphasia (PWA) produce more gestures than healthy control persons (HCP) during interpretation of texts; 2) The more speech-restricted a person with aphasia is, the more gestures he/she produces during the interpretation of a text.

Keywords

• aphasia
• gestures
• speech
• non-verbal communication
• linguistic experiment
• trade-off hypothesis
• hand-in-hand hypothesis