prosodicgestural
Prosodicgestural refers to the study of how prosody and gesture interact in human communication. It encompasses the relationship between prosodic features of speech—such as intonation, rhythm, stress, and boundary cues—and the accompanying gestures, including co-speech beat and deictic gestures in spoken language as well as the gestural timing and prosodic cues used in sign languages. The concept emphasizes that meaning, emphasis, and information structure are often conveyed through a coordinated multimodal system rather than through speech alone.
In spoken language, research on prosodicgestural patterns highlights alignment between gesture timing and prosodic structure. Beat
Methods used in this field include motion capture and video annotation to study gesture timing, acoustic analyses
Prosodicgestural research informs theories of multimodal communication, language learning, speech technology, and human-computer interaction, while also