‘This you may NNNNNNEVER have heard before’: initial lengthening of accented negative items as vocal-entangled gestures

Movement scientists have proposed to ground the relation between prosody and gesture in ‘vocal-entangled gestures’, defined as biomechanical linkages between upper limb movement and the respiratory–vocal system. Focusing on spoken language negation, this article identifies an acoustic profile with w...

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Published in:	Language and Cognition
Main Author:	Simon Harrison
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2024-12-01
Subjects:	biomechanics entanglement facial expression gesture languaging lengthening multimodality multiscalarity negation stress
Online Access:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000267/type/journal_article