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A Preliminary Investigation of the Relationship between Gestures and Prosody in Italian
Anna Esposito, Daniela Esposito, Mario Refice, Michelina Savino, Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel
65 - 74
NATO Security through Science Series - E: Human and Societal Dynamics
Volume 18: Fundamentals of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication and the Biometric Issue
Abstract

This work investigates the relationship between gestures and prosodic events (such as pitch accent and boundary tones), exploiting a class of gestural movements named HITS defined for American English by [21] as: “An abrupt stop or pause in movement, which breaks the flow of the gesture during which it occurs”. Our analysis shows that the tendency toward temporal synchronisation between these gestural units and prosodic events which is reported for American English is observable also in Italian.

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