Evelyn McClave

List of John Benjamins publications for which Evelyn McClave plays a role.

Articles

McClave, Evelyn 2007 8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in TurkanaGesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 91–98 | Chapter
McClave, Evelyn, Helen Kim, Rita Tamer and Milo Mileff 2007 Head movements in the context of speech in Arabic, Bulgarian, Korean, and African-American Vernacular EnglishGesture 7:3, pp. 343–390 | Article
A previous study among European-Americans (McClave, 2000) observed that particular forms of head movements occur in specific communicative environments. The present study investigates whether any of the form–function relationships observed in the original study are cross-cultural. The database… read more
This paper presents evidence of non-manual gestures in American Sign Language (ASL). The types of gestures identified are identical to non-manual, spontaneous gestures used by hearing non-signers which suggests that the gestures co-occurring with ASL signs are borrowings from hearing culture. A… read more