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Publication details [#44276]

McCafferty, Steven G. 2006. Gesture and the materialization of second language prosody. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 44 (2) : 197–209.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gesture | L2-acquisition | movement | prosody

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Annotation

This analysis of a participant's use of second language speech production, in combination with beat gestures, states that the second language participant used this metaphoric gesture form as a multimodal syllabification representation. It is speculated that movement itself might be a part of second language acquisition.