Timing properties of hand gestures and their lexical counterparts at turn transition places
- 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.
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| Author: | Margaret Zellers, Jan GorischORCiDGND, David House, Benno Peters |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-93683 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3246021 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the FONETIK (Swedish Phonetics Conference) 2019 in Stockholm, June 10–12, 2019 |
| Publisher: | Stockholm University |
| Place of publication: | Stockholm |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/11/04 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Gestik; Konversationsanalyse; Sprecherwechsel |
| First Page: | 119 |
| Last Page: | 124 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Program areas: | Pragmatik |
| Licence (English): |  Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International |