Prolegomena of a theory of between-person coordination of speech and gesture

Furuyama, Nobuhiro

doi:10.1006/ijhc.2002.1021

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“…For example, corroborating evidence for gestures being communicatively intended comes from studies manipulating the social and communicative context of talk. Studies have observed effects of addressee location on gesture orientation and gesture space (Furuyama 2002;Ö zyürek 2002). Bavelas et al (2002) showed that speakers describing stimuli to an imagined interlocutor, who they were told will either see a videorecording or hear a tape-recording of their description, produced more gestures when they thought their recording would be seen by the other person.…”

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Co-Speech Gesture Mimicry in the Process of Collaborative Referring During Face-to-Face Dialogue

2011

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Mimicry has been observed regarding a range of nonverbal behaviors, but only recently have researchers started to investigate mimicry in co-speech gestures. These gestures are considered to be crucially different from other aspects of nonverbal behavior due to their tight link with speech. This study provides evidence of mimicry in co-speech gestures in face-to-face dialogue, the most common forum of everyday talk. In addition, it offers an analysis of the functions that mimicked co-speech gestures fulfill in the collaborative process of creating a mutually shared understanding of referring expressions. The implications bear on theories of gesture production, research on grounding, and the mechanisms underlying behavioral mimicry.

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Co-Speech Gesture Mimicry in the Process of Collaborative Referring During Face-to-Face Dialogue

2011

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“…The verbal exchanges that occur during a conversation also can operate to couple the movements of interacting individuals. In fact, not only can verbal exchanges operate to entrain the gestural (Furuyama, 2000(Furuyama, , 2002Furuyama, Hayashi, & Mishima, 2005) and postural (Condon & Ogston, 1966;Kendon, 1970;LaFrance, 1982;Shockley, Santana, & Fowler, 2003) movements of interacting individuals without the individuals intending to entrain, but they also can lead to the interacting individuals converging in dialect (Giles, 1973), speaking rate (Street, 1984), vocal intensity (Natale, 1975), and pausing frequency (Cappella & Planalp, 1981; see Giles, Coupland, & Coupland, 1991, for a review).…”

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Articulatory constraints on interpersonal postural coordination.

Shockley¹,

Baker²,

Richardson³

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Cooperative conversation has been shown to foster interpersonal postural coordination. The authors investigated whether such coordination is mediated by the influence of articulation on postural sway. In Experiment 1, talkers produced words in synchrony or in alternation, as the authors varied speaking rate and word similarity. Greater shared postural activity was found for the faster speaking rate. In Experiment 2, the authors demonstrated that shared postural activity also increases when individuals speak the same words or speak words that have similar stress patterns. However, this increase in shared postural activity is present only when participants' data are compared with those of their partner, who was present during the task, but not when compared with the data of a member of a different pair speaking the same word sequences as those of the original partner. The authors' findings suggest that interpersonal postural coordination observed during conversation is mediated by convergent speaking patterns.

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“…It has been hypothesized that the "ba-ba" babbling of infants (with onset around 7 months) may be a nonverbal motor activity related to the emergent control over mouth and jaw, or a linguistic activity reflecting early sensitivity to phonetic-syllabic patterns (Pettito, Holowka, Sergio, Levy, & Ostry, 2004). Drawing on the classic work by Kendon (1972), McNeill has long argued that there is an extremely close synchrony between gesture and speech such that the two operate as an inseparable, coherent unit that embodies the language production process itself rather than just reflecting different outputs from it (McNeill, 1992(McNeill, , 2000; see also Furuyama, 2002). Thus, words and gestures are not just expressions of thought but instead such acts constitute the thinking process itself.…”

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Gestures and Phases: The Dynamics of Speech-Hand Communication

Treffner¹,

Peter²,

Kleidon

2008

Ecological Psychology

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We investigated how a listener's perceived meaning of a spoken sentence is influenced by the relative timing between a speaker's speech and accompanying hand gestures. Participants viewed a computer-animated character who uttered the phrase, "Put the book there now." while executing a simple right-handed beat gesture whose location relative to the utterance was precisely controlled in a frame-by-frame fashion. The participant's task consisted of making a judgment about two related aspects of the actor's perceived speech: (a) Which word was emphasized? and (b) How clear was the emphasis? That is, did it make sense? The results revealed that the perceived emphasis was determined by the timing (phasing) of the speaker's hand gesture. Furthermore, the clarity of the perceived emphasis (i.e., meaningfulness) was influenced by the affordances in the immediate environment of the speaker. Discussion addresses the primacy of ostensive specification and gesture in communicative events, the dynamics of speech-hand coordination during both actual and virtual dialogue, and the role of environmental affordances in grounding informative communicative acts in the ecology of organism-environment dynamics. The question of the extent to which hand gestures (and other movements sometimes referred to as "body language") might provide a basis for human communication continues to challenge theories of language and language development. The fact that most of us move our hands in spontaneous gesture even if we cannot be seen, for example when talking to a blind person or to someone by telephone (Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 1997), suggests that a speaker's accompanying hand

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Prolegomena of a theory of between-person coordination of speech and gesture

Cited by 13 publications

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Co-Speech Gesture Mimicry in the Process of Collaborative Referring During Face-to-Face Dialogue

Co-Speech Gesture Mimicry in the Process of Collaborative Referring During Face-to-Face Dialogue

Articulatory constraints on interpersonal postural coordination.

Gestures and Phases: The Dynamics of Speech-Hand Communication

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