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Quirks and Quarks covered non-verbal language differences between Italian and Swedish speakers:
Swedish speakers used gestures that concretely represented the subjects of their speech, while Italian speakers used abstract gestures more related to emphasis.

The scientists plan to expand their research to more languages, more speakers, different relations between speaker and listener, etc. They also briefly touched on head and eyebrow movement, physical closeness of speaker, etc.

This concrete vs abstract modes in the two languages prompts a few questions:
1. Is the difference embedded in culture?
2. Does age and complexity of culture explain some of the concreteneas or lack of?
3. Are hand gestures universal and what other variations or dimensions are there?

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