Prosodic structure shapes the temporal realization of intonation and manual gesture movements

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 850-864

  Esteve Gibert, Núria ^a   Prieto, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Intonation gesture coordination; Pointing; Prosody; Temporal synchronization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING; HUMAN; INTONATION-GESTURE COORDINATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHONETICS; POINTING; PROSODY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

INTONATION-GESTURE COORDINATION; POINTING; PROSODY; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PHONETICS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879535465     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0049)     Document Type: Article

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