Suggestion for Further Studies

Gesture study is an exciting and interesting area of research, which has developed rapidly during few decades. The researchers are trying to find possible relationship between gestural representation and the language development. Many researchers view gestures as the early form of communication among primitive human beings. The gestural development in children may also lead us to understand the language development and by the same token we may understand the evolutionary process of language. Though language did not leave any foot print on the way of evolution, but it is hoped that the gesture studies may lead us to those turns which play a vital role in the evolutionary process of human language.

The present study proves that English and Urdu are typologically different languages, which encode the same manner of motion events not only in different syntactic structures but also the speakers of the respective language produce different iconic gestures. To summaries the present study, it is seen that how Urdu and English languages are typologically different from each other, how L1 English and L1 Urdu encoded the same motion events in different syntactic structures accompanying different iconic gestures. English L1 speakers are found to be encoded manner of motion event in the main clause and the path in an addition satellite prepositional phrase, which shows the trajectory of the moving figure. It has also been found that L1Urdu speakers encode the same event in two separate clauses, where one encodes the manner of the motion and the other shows the path of the moving

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figure, and they use two separate gestures one for manner and other for the path.

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