Alexander Rice presents a corpus study of a gesture in Quichua which looks to American English speakers as “kinda” (5 HS, radial twist), but cocurrs with “absence”; it seems to be an emblem in Ecuador, and it is present across lg communities, incl Ecuadorian Sign Lg #HDLS14
Lauren Clark presents on Altaic influences in Mandarin Chinese word order: she argues that SVO & SOV shouldn’t be thought of categorically! (along the lines of what Natalia Levshina, Alex Kramer, and I + colleagues argued in our SLE workshop & in an upcoming consensus paper!)
Tasheney Francis does a multimodal analysis of avoidance strategies/demotion of credibility in witnesses of a Jamaican Truth Commission; she argues these are face-saving strategies #HDLS14
Jennifer Hinnell & Sally Rice investigate co-speech behaviors in listing constructions IN INTERACTION! they compare “x, y, & z(ed)” Cxs with “x, y, & {so on, whatever, so forth, ...}” Cxs. are they gestured differently? #HDLS14
They said they wanted to find a schema with slots, but they quickly realized that the actual items being listed seemed to matter a LOT — we need more data to figure out what generalizations might be there! #HDLS14
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