A multimodal approach to polysemy: the senses of touch

This study investigated whether speakers use multimodal information (speech and gesture) to differentiate the physical and emotional meanings of the polysemous verb touch. We analyzed 302 hand gestures that co-occurred with this perception verb. For each case, we annotated (1) the meaning of touch (...

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Main Authors: Irene Bolumar Martínez, Daniel Alcaraz Carrión, Javier Valenzuela Manzanares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press
Series:Language and Cognition
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Online Access:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1866980824000231/type/journal_article