LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Handshape, Principle Of Compositionality
15 May 2020
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The super-linguistic approach to multi-modal integration in speech. Not defined as hand movements (not even in speech). Conventionalized (lexicalized, systematic) vs non-conventionalized (nonlexicalized, nonsystematic) What are some examples of gesture in sign discussed by goldin-meadow & Handshape is linguistic, but location and movement are gestural. Both linguistic and gestural phenomena contribute meaning. Learning argument: mismatches in linguistic and gestural messages in learners on the edge of learning (can externalize gesturally before being able to do so linguistically) We introduce categorical contrasts by virtue of having specific alternatives (implicit or explicit) Gesture still adheres to rules internally (systematic form-to-meaning mappings, phonological constraints, etc) and when integrating with language, . I. e. , there is a grammar of gesture . Mismatch between the common notion of gesture and gesture . We can"t ignore the gesture component in either sign or speech. But we don"t fully understand the cognitive divide between language and gesture.
