Gestural correlates to the OVER AND OVER expression
Résumé
This study identifies stable gestural correlates to the OVER AND OVER adverbial phrase in American English. This expression involves lexical iteration and adds aspectual information. Speakers have been shown to rely on co-verbal gestures to communicate aspectual information, along with lexical and grammatical means. However, most of the research has focused on hand gestures. Cyclic gestures have particularly been linked with meanings of motion, either physical or metaphorical, as well as continuity.
We use video datasets of spoken American English belonging to the Distributed Little Red Hen Lab as part of the UCLA Library Newscape Archive. We determine which formal features participate in the expression of iteration, in a variety of articulators (hands, head, eyebrows).
Domaines
Linguistique
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