The interaction of pitch accent and gesture production in Italian and English

摘要: This article addresses the way that gesture and speech prominence are manifest in two different linguistic communities – Italian American English. Controlled free narratives were elicited from three adult females (Midwestern variety) (Florentine analyzed using a method designed to measure properties associated with pitch accents, those of gestures, alignment together naturally occurring speech. The results suggest some important similarities as well differences between speak ers. In cases where accent is not totally contained within domain gesture, both groups tended produce gestures preceded onset accent, confirming previous work. Both overwhelmingly also used manual hands for iconic gestures. There was difference expression prosodic gestures: while produced greater number than body, Italians exhibited stronger preference do so. vowels English speakers more affected by presence speakers. trends found this study there may be cross-linguistic but larger participants will needed conclude certainty, since high degree between-subject variation. Ital ian US English, these data provide evidence existence one, multi-modal system involving co-speech constitutes an integrated language.