Carolin Kirchhof

Deutsche Angestellten-Akademie · Forschung und Entwicklung

Up to now, the focus in gesture research has long been on the production of speech-accompanying gestures and on how speech-gesture utterances contribute to communication. An issue that has mostly been neglected is in how far listeners even perceive the gesture-part of a multimodal utterance. For instance, there has been a major focus on the lexico-...

Gesture and speech are linked in time and meaning. The linkage is limited to the lexico-semantic integration windows of theme-rheme pairs, which by itself already indicates that the temporal synchrony of speech and gesture is more flexible than previously thought. While we know that listeners do perceive both hand and mouth movements (e.g. Gullberg...

Following De Ruiter (2000), I propose that there is no such thing as a lexical affiliate for every gesture. I suggest interpreting gestures by their conceptual affiliates. The existence of conceptual rather than lexical gesture affiliates is supported by empirical data from a perception study with German native speakers. They linked gestures in vid...

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Two sets of studies researched the perceptual integration of desynchronized speech and gesture in listeners. In the first set, participants rated how natural asynchronies in multimodal stimuli with varying face obscurity appeared to them, both with speech before and after the gesture for up to 600 ms. In the second set, participants were asked to r...