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  1. Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  2. Gestural depiction of motion events in narrative increases symbolic distance with age

    Article • Language Interaction and Acquisition, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita, Dr Kazuki Sekine

  3. Satellite- vs. Verb-Framing Underpredicts Nonverbal Motion Categorization: Insights from a Large Language Sample and Simulations

    Article • Cognitive Semantics, February 2017, Brill

    Dr Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Professor Friederike Luepke, Dr Anetta Kopecka, Guillermo Montero-Melis, Dr Bhuvana Narasimhan, Professor Sotaro Kita, Tatiana Nikitina, Florian Jaeger

  4. At 10-12 Months, Pointing Gesture Handedness Predicts the Size of Receptive Vocabularies

    Article • Infancy, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  5. Co-thought and co-speech gestures are generated by the same action generation process.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  6. Development of multimodal discourse comprehension: cohesive use of space by gestures

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, July 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  7. The Development of the Ability to Semantically Integrate Information in Speech and Iconic Gesture in Comprehension

    Article • Cognitive Science, March 2015, Wiley

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  8. Sound Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in 14-Month-Olds

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2015, PLOS

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  9. Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants

    Article • Cortex, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  10. The parallel development of the form and meaning of two-handed gestures and linguistic information packaging within a clause in narrative

    Article • Open Linguistics, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  11. Authors’ Preface

    Article • Sign Language & Linguistics, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita, Harry van der Hulst

  12. The non-linguistic status of the Symmetry Condition in signed languages

    Article • Sign Language & Linguistics, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita, Harry van der Hulst

  13. Authors’ Afterword

    Article • Sign Language & Linguistics, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita, Harry van der Hulst

  14. The development of co-representation effects in a joint task: Do children represent a co-actor?

    Article • Cognition, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  15. Semantics is crucial for the right-hemisphere involvement in metaphor processing: Evidence from mouth asymmetry during speaking

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, August 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  16. Individual differences in frequency and saliency of speech-accompanying gestures: The role of cognitive abilities and empathy.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  17. Children Use Gesture to Interpret Novel Verb Meanings

    Article • Child Development, November 2013, Wiley

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  18. When Do Speakers Use Gestures to Specify Who Does What to Whom? The Role of Language Proficiency and Type of Gestures in Narratives

    Article • Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  19. SOUND SYMBOLISM HELPS INFANTS' WORD LEARNING

    Article • February 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  20. The Role of Spontaneous Gestures in Spatial Problem Solving

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  21. Japanese two-year-olds use morphosyntax to learn novel verb meanings

    Article • Journal of Child Language, September 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  22. Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults

    Article • Gesture, September 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  23. Preverbal infants’ sensitivity to sound symbolism: An EEG study

    Article • Neuroscience Research, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  24. The Role of Synchrony and Ambiguity in Speech–Gesture Integration during Comprehension

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, August 2011, The MIT Press

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  25. Japanese Sound-Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in English-Speaking Children

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2011, Wiley

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  26. The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2011, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  27. Gesture highlights perceptually present information for speakers

    Article • Gesture, September 2010, John Benjamins

    Professor Martha W. Alibali, Professor Sotaro Kita

  28. CHILDREN LEARN SOUND SYMBOLIC WORDS BETTER: EVOLUTIONARY VESTIGE OF SOUND SYMBOLIC PROTOLANGUAGE

    Article • March 2010, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  29. EARLY LINKS BETWEEN ICONIC GESTURES AND SOUND SYMBOLIC WORDS: EVIDENCE FOR MULTIMODAL PROTOLANGUAGE

    Article • March 2010, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  30. Perception of sound symbolism in 12 month-old infants: An ERP study

    Article • Neuroscience Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  31. Attention to Speech-Accompanying Gestures: Eye Movements and Information Uptake

    Article • Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Marianne Gullberg, Professor Sotaro Kita

  32. Competing conceptual representations trigger co-speech representational gestures

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, April 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  33. Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, February 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  34. Using the Hands to Identify Who Does What to Whom: Gesture and Speech Go Hand-in-Hand

    Article • Cognitive Science, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  35. Gesture and speech integration: an exploratory study of a man with aphasia

    Article • International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, January 2009, Wiley

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  36. Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning

    Article • Cognition, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  37. How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking: Evidence from self-repairs

    Article • Cognition, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  38. Generation of co-speech gestures based on spatial imagery from the right-hemisphere: Evidence from split-brain patients

    Article • Cortex, February 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  39. Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture: Motion events in English and Turkish.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  40. Spontaneous gestures during mental rotation tasks: Insights into the microdevelopment of the motor strategy.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2008, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  41. Relations between syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  42. Primary and secondary pragmatic functions of pointing gestures

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  43. Introduction to the special issue, “Nodding, aizuchi, and final particles in Japanese conversation”

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  44. Nodding, aizuchi, and final particles in Japanese conversation: How conversation reflects the ideology of communication and social relationships

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  45. Conceptualisation load triggers gesture production

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, June 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  46. Metaphor explanation attenuates the right-hand preference for depictive co-speech gestures that imitate actions

    Article • Brain and Language, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  47. I see it in my hands’ eye: Representational gestures reflect conceptual demands

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, April 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  48. On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, April 2007, The MIT Press

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  49. Language-specific and universal influences in children’s syntactic packaging of Manner and Path: A comparison of English, Japanese, and Turkish

    Article • Cognition, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  50. Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events

    Article • Language, January 2007, Project Muse

    Dr Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Professor Sotaro Kita

  51. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  52. 5 How does Spoken Language Shape Iconic Gestures?

    Article • January 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  53. Language-specific properties of the lexicon: Implications for learning and processing

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, November 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  54. Conceptualisation load triggers gesture production

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, August 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  55. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?

    Article • Gesture, December 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  56. Response to Comment on "Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua"

    Article • Science, July 2005, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  57. Review of Kita ((2003)): Pointing. Where language, culture, and cognition meet

    Article • Gesture, February 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Marianne Gullberg, Professor Sotaro Kita

  58. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?: Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities

    Article • Gesture, January 2005, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  59. Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua

    Article • Science, September 2004, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  60. Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  61. The content of the message influences the hand choice in co-speech gestures and in gesturing without speaking

    Article • Brain and Language, July 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  62. Split-brain patients neglect left personal space during right-handed gestures

    Article • Neuropsychologia, January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  63. What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking

    Article • Journal of Memory and Language, January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  64. Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

    Article • Cognition, June 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  65. Dissociation of Right and Left Hand Gesture Spaces in Split-Brain Patients

    Article • Cortex, January 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  66. Pointing left in Ghana

    Article • Gesture, December 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita, James Essegbey

  67. Does Gesture Help Processes of Speech Production? Evidence for Conceptual Level Facilitation

    Article • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, June 2001, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  68. Gestures and Self-Monitoring in Speech Production

    Article • Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, June 2001, Semantics and Pragmatics

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  69. Semantic schism and interpretive integration in Japanese sentences with a mimetic: reply to Tsujimura

    Article • Linguistics, January 2001, De Gruyter

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  70. Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture

    Article • Language and Cognitive Processes, December 2000, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  71. Japanese Enter/Exit Verbs Without Motion Semantics

    Article • Studies in Language, November 1999, John Benjamins

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  72. Semantic Typology and Spatial Conceptualization

    Article • Language, September 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  73. Semantic typology and spatial conceptualization

    Article • Language, January 1998, Project Muse

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  74. Movement phases in signs and co-speech gestures, and their transcription by human coders

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  75. Two-dimensional semantic analysis of Japanese mimetics

    Article • Linguistics, January 1997, De Gruyter

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  76. How representational gestures help speaking

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  77. World-View of Protolanguage Speakers as Inferred from Semantics of Sound Symbolic Words: A Case of Japanese Mimetics

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  78. A grammar of space in Japanese

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  79. The macro-event property

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Sotaro Kita

  80. 11. Children’s use of morphosyntax and argument structure to infer the meaning of novel transitive and intransitive verbs

    Article • De Gruyter

    Professor Sotaro Kita