Languages Forum - Phonetics and Gestures:

Re: Phonetics and Gestures:

dummy@example.com (@christine) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:46:44 +0000

nice though

Re: Phonetics and Gestures:

dummy@example.com (suresh) — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:49:33 +0000

Hindi is very sweet spoken language.

When we want to drink, we lift hand,,bring thump near mouth asking for water,every one understands.when two people fight, we show fist clasping all the fingures.

when we are serious or tensed, hand automatically goes on our forhead showing pensive mood.

when angry, eyebrow lift up.

when tensed, bite fingers.

tks.

suresh
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Re: Phonetics and Gestures:

dummy@example.com (polyglot) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:09:16 +0000

It's cute the waggly bouncing Italian body language, it seems that a good part of the Italian language includes body language or a distinctive tone, the same exists in other language but I think it's more apparent in Italian, I guess the gestures are just some personal and cultural touches that you can add to the language.

Re: Phonetics and Gestures:

dummy@example.com (bluemerlin) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:29:08 +0000

Hmmm...that is an interesting thought ....

I would think that the gestures are following the cadence and rhythms of the speech for emphasis .

Phonetics and Gestures:

dummy@example.com (Collisions Of Thought) — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:50:41 +0000

Recently, a friend and I stumbled upon a strange idea. Do the hand gestures of a people who speak a certain language reflect the phonetic sound of that language? For example, Italiano could be descibed as a very waggly, bouncing, wild language, with moments of hanging before the penultimate syllable. Italian hand gestures seem to reflect this; they're wild, all over the place, and completely disorganized. Could this be similar with other languages? if anyone is familiar with hand gestures of people whose first language was anything other than English, please describe them so I can compare them to the phonetics of a language. (ex. since German sounds like a very stern, hard language, are German hand gestures hard, quick, and small?)