Grain levels in English path curvature descriptions and accompanying iconic gestures

Grain levels in English path curvature descriptions and accompanying iconic gestures

This paper confirms that the English verb system (similar to the Finnish, Dutch, and Bulgarian verb systems) represents path curvature at three different grain levels: neutral path curvature, global path curvature, and local path curvature. We show that the three-grain-level hypothesis makes it poss...

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Main Authors: Urpo Nikanne, Uta Sassenberg, Emile van der Zee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Maine 2010-07-01
Series:Journal of Spatial Information Science
Subjects:
curvature
English language
gesture production
grain level
verb semantics
motion event
path representation
scale
spatial resolution
speech production
Online Access:http://josis.org/index.php/josis/article/view/16

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