creators_name: McNeill, David
type: preprint
datestamp: 1998-05-22
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:10
metadata_visibility: show
title: Models of Speaking (To Their Amazement) Meet Speech-Synchronized Gestures
ispublished: unpub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys
subjects: ling-comput
subjects: ling-prag
full_text_status: public
keywords: information processing models, gesture, speech production, context, discourse, cohesion, speech production
abstract: The chapters in this volume have generally accepted the argument that speech-gesture integration is basic to language use. But what explains the integration itself? I will attempt to make the case that it can be understood with the concept of a `growth point' or GP (McNeill & Duncan this volume) It is called a GP since it is a theoretical unit in which principles that explain mental growth -- differentiation, internalization, dialectic, and reorganization -- apply to realtime utterance generation by adults (and children). It is also called a GP since it is meant to be the initial form of a thinking-while-speaking unit out of which a dynamic process of organization emerges. The emergence unpacks the GP into a surface utterance and gesture that articulates its meaning implications.
date: 1998
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   McNeill, David  (1998) Models of Speaking (To Their Amazement) Meet Speech-Synchronized Gestures.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/665/1/McNeill_Catchments.html