Paper Info
Title
Movement Phase in Signs and Co-Speech Gestures, and Their Transcriptions by Human Coders
Abstract
The previous literature has suggested that the hand movement in co-speech gestures and signs consists of a series of phases with qualitatively different dynamic characteristics. In this paper, we propose a syntagmatic rule system for movement phases that applies to both co-speech gestures and signs. Descriptive criteria for the rule system were developed for the analysis video-recorded continuous production of signs and gesture. It involves segmenting a stream of body movement into phases and identifying different phase types. Two human coders used the criteria to analyze signs and cospeech gestures that are produced in natural discourse. It was found that the criteria yielded good inter-coder reliability. These criteria can be used for the technology of automatic recognition of signs and co-speech gestures in order to segment continuous production and identify the potentially meaningbearing phase.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1007/BFb0052986
Gesture Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
co-speech gestures,human coders,movement phase
Transcription (linguistics),Computer science,Gesture,Semiotics,Pattern analysis,Syntagmatic analysis,Speech recognition,Sign language
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-64424-5
66
6.31
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sotaro Kita112630.58
Ingeborg van Gijn2666.31
Harry van der Hulst3666.65