This study examines the influence of the position of prosodic heads (accented syllables) and
prosodic edges (prosodic word and intonational phrase boundaries) on the timing of head …

Prosodic realization of focus has been a widely investigated topic across languages and
modalities. Simultaneous focus strategies are intriguing to see how they interact regarding …

This paper aims at describing prosodic focalization as a multimodal phenomenon in
Brazilian Portuguese, evaluating the role of two modalities in focus production and …

When giving descriptions, speakers often signify object shape or size with hand gestures.
Such so-called 'iconic'gestures represent their meaning through their relevance to referents …

In motor skill coaching interaction coaches use several techniques to improve the motor skill
of the coachee. Through goal setting, explanations, instructions and feedback the coachee …

Consciously or not, we communicate with every means available to us (Peirce, 1894/1998;
de Saussure, 1972/1983). Verbal utterances can be wisely planned or produced …

Enabling computers to understand natural human communication is a goal researchers
have been long aspired to in artificial intelligence. Since the concept demonstration of “Put …