Gestural coordination at prosodic boundaries and its role for prosodic structure and speech planning processes.
Prosodic structure is a grammatical component that serves multiple functions in the production, comprehension and acquisition of language. Prosodic boundaries are critical for the understanding of the nature of the prosodic structure of language, and important progress has been made in the past decades in illuminating their properties. We first review recent prosodic boundary research from the point of view of gestural coordination. We then go on to tie in this work to questions of speech planning and manual and head movement. We conclude with an outline of a new direction of research which is needed for a full understanding of prosodic boundaries and their role in the speech production process.
Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan, 440 Lorch Hall, 611 Tappan St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220, USA Haskins Laboratories, 300 George Street No. 900, New Haven, CT 06511, USA jelenak@umich.edu.
Jelena
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Krivokapić
D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005868:Gestures; D019416:Head Movements / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010507:Periodicity; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*
articulatory gestures; gestural coordination; manual gesturing; prosodic boundaries; prosodic structure; speech planning