Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and Its Organisation with Speech

Simon Harrison; Pierre  Larrivée

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8_4

Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and Its Organisation with Speech

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In this paper, we present novel observations indicating that the syntax of clause negation in French constrains how speakers perform a specific gestural form associated with negation. As previously demonstrated for English (Harrison 2010), the Palm-Down-Horizontal-Across (PDA) gesture that we study tends to be coordinated with the main propositional negator and then held in space with the proceeding clause-mate elements. This tendency is confirmed by the French data from an audiovisual corpus of naturalistic conversations. These new data show that the PDA gesture stroke starts with the vocal marker of negation in French as well. This invites further investigation into the relation between propositional structure and structural aspects of gestures as a full component of linguistic organisation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Negation and Polarity
Subtitle of host publication	Experimental Perspectives
Editors	Pierre Larrivée, Chungmin Lee
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	75-94
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319174648
ISBN (Print)	9783319174631
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8_4
Publication status	Published - 2016
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Language, Cognition, and Mind
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	2364-4109
ISSN (Electronic)	2364-4117

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Gesture

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Harrison, S., & Larrivée, P. (2016). Morphosyntactic Correlates of Gestures: A Gesture Associated with Negation in French and Its Organisation with Speech. In P. Larrivée, & C. Lee (Eds.), Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives (pp. 75-94). (Language, Cognition, and Mind; Vol. 1). Springer International Publishing . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17464-8_4

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Negation and Polarity: Experimental Perspectives. ed. / Pierre Larrivée; Chungmin Lee. Springer International Publishing , 2016. p. 75-94 (Language, Cognition, and Mind; Vol. 1).

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