@incollection{ZellersGorischHouseetal.2019, author = {Margaret Zellers and Jan Gorisch and David House and Benno Peters}, title = {Timing properties of hand gestures and their lexical counterparts at turn transition places}, series = {Proceedings of the FONETIK (Swedish Phonetics Conference) 2019 in Stockholm, June 10–12, 2019}, publisher = {Stockholm University}, address = {Stockholm}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3246021}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-93683}, pages = {119 -- 124}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Looking at gestures as a means for communication, they can serve conversational participants at several levels. As co-speech gestures, they can add information to the verbally expressed content and they can serve to manage turn-taking. In order to look closer at the interplay between these resources in face-to face conversation, we annotated hand gestures, syntactic completion points and the related turn-organisation, and measured the timing of gesture strokes and their lexical/phrasal referent. In a case study on German, we observe the trend that speakers vary less in gesturelexis on- and offsets when keeping the turn after syntactic completions than at speaker changes, backchannel or other locations of a conversation. This indicates that timing properties of non-verbal cues interact with verbal cues to manage turn-taking.}, language = {en} }