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  • Title
    Hand gestures and pitch contours and their distribution at possible speaker change locations: a first investigation / Margaret Zellers, Jan Gorisch, David House, and Benno Peters
  • Author
    Zellers, Margaret ; Gorisch, Jan ; House, David ; Peters, Benno
  • Is part of
    Proceedings of the 6th Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference, page 93-98
  • Published
    Paderborn : Universitätsbibliothek, 2019
  • Description
    1 Online-Ressource (7 Seiten) : Diagramme
  • Language
    English
  • Document Types
    Scientific Article (Published Electronically)
  • URN
    urn:nbn:de:hbz:466:2-35727 
  • DOI
    10.17619/UNIPB/1-814 
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  • Smooth turn-taking in conversation depends in part on speakers being able to communicatetheir intention to hold or cede the floor. Both prosodic and gestural cues have been shown tobe used in this context. We investigate the interplay of pitch movements and hand gestures atlocations at which speaker change becomes relevant, comparing their use in German andSwedish. We find that there are some shared functions of prosody and gesture with regard toturn-taking in the two languages, but that these shared functions appear to be mediated by thedifferent phonological demands on pitch in the two languages.
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