Sotaro Kita

Appointments

• 1993-2003 Led the Gesture Project at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• 1993-1994 Postdoctoral Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• 1994-2003 Senior Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
• 2003-2006 Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Experimental Psychology in the University of Bristol
• 2006-2013 Reader at the School of Psychology in the University of Birmingham
• 2013–present Professor of Psychology of Language at University of Warwick

  Selected publications

• Mumford, K. H., & Kita, S.. Children Use Gesture to Interpret Novel Verb Meanings. Child Development, 85, 1181-1189. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12188 Open Access accepted version: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/65784/
• Chu, M., & Kita, S.. The nature of gestures' beneficial role in spatial problem solving. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140, 102-115. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0021790
• Imai, M., Kita, S., Nagumo, M., & Okada, H.. Sound symbolism between a word and an action facilitates early verb learning. Cognition, 109, 54-65. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.07.015
• Senghas, A., Kita, S., & Özyürek, A.. Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science, 305, 1779-1782. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1100199 Open Access Pre-Print: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66237/
• Kita, S., & Özyürek, A.. 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/S0749-596X00505-3 Open Access accepted version: http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/66232/
• Kita, S.. Jesuchaa: kangaeru karada .'' Tokyo: Kaneko Shobo.