Susan Goldin-Meadow
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago

The Resilience of Language and Gesture

Gesture is versatile in form and function.  Under certain circumstances, gesture can substitute for speech, and when it does, it embodies the properties of language that children themselves bring to language learning, and underscores the resilience of language itself. Under other circumstances, gesture can form a fully integrated system with speech.  When it does, it both predicts and promotes learning, and underscores the resilience of gesture in thinking.

The seminar will begin at 12:00pm in the SAIL Room, 111 Levin Building, 425 S. University Avenue. 

A pizza lunch will be served at 11:45am.