Talk by Camila Antônio Barros (Berlin) and Vinicius Macuch-Silva (Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium
We are happy to announce a talk by Camila Antônio Barros (Berlin) and Vinicius Macuch-Silva (Frankfurt) in the Semantics Colloquium.
The talk will take place on campus in IG 4.301.
If you wish to participate virtually via Zoom, please contact Lennart Fritzsche for the link.
Date: October 23, 2025
Time: 4 pm – 6 pm c.t.
Title: Time commitment: ways gesture can be placed in time
Abstract:
In this talk, we discuss different types of synchrony between gesture and speech, an issue that has been at the center of work on gesture-speech coordination. Based on McNeill (1992), we present an empirical investigation of how gesture and speech can be synchronized at the phonological, semantic, and pragmatic levels, drawing on a corpus study as well as on an experimental study. In the corpus study, we investigate the overlap between gesture and speech in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, looking at representationality and the synchrony of gesture relative to phonological anchors. The results show that the overlap between a word and a stroke...