LIN 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Syntactic Category, Subset
15 May 2020
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Main sroke co-occurs with spoken material (prosodically parasitic) Potentially integrate with the spoken material it co-occurs with compositionally, i. e. , in syntax/semantics (important: exact surface alignment does not equal syntactic position) Main stroke doesn"t co-occur with spoken material (prosodically independent) Integrates with the surrounding spoken material compositionally (we exclude silent gesture from this category) Potential constraints on which gestures can be linearized as co-speech vs pro-speech based on constraints. Main strokes usually align with prominent syllables. Pausing, lengthening the preceding material, fillers, vocalizations. No prosodic boundaries (marked by edge tones) are created where they wouldn"t happen for spoken material. I. e. , they follow the same rules as spoken material. Tend to be vps, but can be any syntactic category. Linearize according to language-specific rules for spoken material (e. g. , in english, gestural verbs precede objects, gestural adjectives precede nouns, gestural nouns follow determiners, etc. )
