An embodied and situated perspective on speech and language - Two motor tasks within the same body: Timing and coordination of speech and manual gestures

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titleAn embodied and situated perspective on speech and language - Two motor tasks within the same body: Timing and coordination of speech and manual gestures
start_date2019/11/15
schedule16h-18h
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summaryHand gestures and articulatory motions belong to two motor systems in one body with different dynamic properties, in particular with regards to mass and speed. Yet, both of them are often well timed and coordinated. In this talk, I will introduce cross-linguistic experiments using motion capture and acoustics where we investigated the speech-hand coordination in natural games (counting out rhymes; shooting cans). The speech-hand coordination was challenged by means of temporal pressure or by different positions of an object in space.
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