Teaching Fellows
Natalie Dowling
Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences
Area of Study
Department of Comparative Human Development
Natalie Dowling
Teaching Fellow in the Social SciencesNatalie R. Dowling’s research concerns nonverbal and extralinguistic coordination in face-to-face interaction and how these conversational tools develop from infancy to adulthood. Dowling studies the development of multimodal discourse across the lifespan, examining the changing functions of co-speech gestures as children become collaborative conversationalists. Her work approaches language development as fundamentally multimodal: Why and when do children use gestures before words? What kinds of nonverbal messages are children sending when they speak? As adults, do we notice?
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