Sotaro Kita

Sotaro Kita is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Warwick. Professor Kita's work focuses on the Psycholinguistics properties of co-speech gesture, the relationship between spatial language, developmental psychology and cognition and sound symbolism.[1] Kita received his PhD from the University of Chicago, working in the lab of David McNeill.[2] from 1993-2003 he led the Gesture Project at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, one of the research foci of the MPI.[3]

Sotaro Kita
OccupationPsychologist
LanguageEnglish, Japanese
EducationB.A., Mathematical engineering and [Master of Arts|[M.A.]] Information engineering, University of Tokyo; Ph.D in psychology and linguistics, University of Chicago, United States
Alma materUniversity of Chicago, USA
Period1993
GenrePsychology
SubjectScientific research into psycholinguistics; language, thought and gesture

From April 2017 he is the editor of GESTURE (published by John Benjamins of Amsterdam).[4] From 2012–2014 he was the president of the International Society for Gesture Studies, and vice-president from 2010-2012.[5]

Appointments

Selected publications
  • Mumford, K. H., & Kita, S. (2014). Children Use Gesture to Interpret Novel Verb Meanings. Child Development, 85(3), 1181-1189. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12188 Open Access accepted version: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/65784/
  • Chu, M., & Kita, S. (2011). The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(1), 102-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021790
  • Imai, M., Kita, S., Nagumo, M., & Okada, H. (2008). Sound symbolism between a word and an action facilitates early verb learning. Cognition, 109(1), 54-65. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.015
  • Senghas, A., Kita, S., & Özyürek, A. (2004). Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science, 305(5697), 1779-1782. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1100199 Open Access Pre-Print: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66237/
  • Kita, S., & Özyürek, A. (2003). What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal?: Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking. Journal of Memory and Language, 48, 16-32. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00505-3 Open Access accepted version: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66232/
  • Kita, S. (2002). Jesuchaa: kangaeru karada [Gesture: the body that thinks]. Tokyo: Kaneko Shobo.

References
  1. "Personal Home Page".
  2. "McNeill Lab Friends".
  3. "Nijmegen Gesture Centre (NGC) - Home".
  4. "Minutes of the seventh conference of the ISGS in Paris, 2016".
  5. "ISGS Executive Board".
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