Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of figures VII
4. List of tables IX
5. 1 Setting the stage: Gestural repetitions in a multimodal corpus 1
6. 2 Building patterns in spoken and visual modalities 22
7. 3 Repeating gestures: Building (complex) units 46
8. 4 Multimodal utterances I: Repetitive gestures affecting the semantics of speech 88
9. 5 Multimodal utterances II: Repetitive gestures interacting with the syntax of speech 114
10. 6 Cognitive functions of repetitive sequences: Attention and salience 153
11. 7 Closing the stage 176
12. Appendices
13. A Notation conventions 201
14. B Description of gestural form features 203
15. C Excerpt from the excel sheet for the example “send back and forth” 211
16. D Transcript example iteration “weapons of mass destruction” 217
17. E Transcript example iteration “Arko” 231
18. F Transcript example iteration “metal thing” 233
19. G Transcript example reduplication “send back and forth” 235
20. H Transcript example reduplication “single steps” 237
21. References 239
22. Index 259