Intensive Gestures in French and their Multimodal Correlates

Gaëlle Ferré (1) , Roxane Bertrand (1) , Philippe Blache (1) , Robert Espesser (1) , Stéphane Rauzy (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

This paper relates a pilot study on intensive gestures in French - e.g. gestures which accompany speech and participate in the highlighting of some discourse elements which the paper means to determine. The study is based on spontaneous French informal conversation and the intensive gestures correlates we looked at pertained to the morphological, prosodic and gestural dimensions.

Mots clés: Reinforcement; intensive gestures; prosody; morphology; hand gestures

Domaines: Linguistique

Gaëlle Ferré, Roxane Bertrand, Philippe Blache, Robert Espesser, Stéphane Rauzy. Intensive Gestures in French and their Multimodal Correlates. Interspeech, Aug 2007, Antwerp, Belgium. pp.690-693. ⟨hal-00173729⟩