Exploring the Effects of Imitating Hand Gestures and Head Nods on L1 and L2 Mandarin Tone Production

Conclusion Results suggest that metaphoric bodily actions do not influence the lowest levels of L1 speech production in a tonal language and may play a very modest role during preliminary L2 learning.
Source: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Source Type: research