10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01775.s004
Sandra Debreslioska
Sandra
Debreslioska
Joost van de Weijer
Joost
van de Weijer
Marianne Gullberg
Marianne
Gullberg
Table_4_Addressees Are Sensitive to the Presence of Gesture When Tracking a Single Referent in Discourse.docx
Frontiers
2019
bimodal reference
gesture
discourse
speech-gesture relationship
anaphoric gesture
gesture perception
localizing gesture
2019-08-13 04:32:21
Dataset
https://frontiersin.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Table_4_Addressees_Are_Sensitive_to_the_Presence_of_Gesture_When_Tracking_a_Single_Referent_in_Discourse_docx/9566882
<p>Production studies show that anaphoric reference is bimodal. Speakers can introduce a referent in speech by also using a localizing gesture, assigning a specific locus in space to it. Referring back to that referent, speakers then often accompany a spoken anaphor with a localizing anaphoric gesture (i.e., indicating the same locus). Speakers thus create visual anaphoricity in parallel to the anaphoric process in speech. In the current perception study, we examine whether addressees are sensitive to localizing anaphoric gestures and specifically to the (mis)match between recurrent use of space and spoken anaphora. The results of two reaction time experiments show that, when a single referent is gesturally tracked, addressees are sensitive to the presence of localizing gestures, but not to their spatial congruence. Addressees thus seem to integrate gestural information when processing bimodal anaphora, but their use of locational information in gestures is not obligatory in every discourse context.</p>