title: Models of Speaking (To Their Amazement) Meet Speech-Synchronized Gestures
creator: McNeill, David
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Dynamical Systems
subject: Computational Linguistics
subject: Pragmatics
description: The chapters in this volume have generally accepted the argument that speech-gesture integration is basic to language use. But what explains the integration itself? I will attempt to make the case that it can be understood with the concept of a `growth point' or GP (McNeill & Duncan this volume) It is called a GP since it is a theoretical unit in which principles that explain mental growth -- differentiation, internalization, dialectic, and reorganization -- apply to realtime utterance generation by adults (and children). It is also called a GP since it is meant to be the initial form of a thinking-while-speaking unit out of which a dynamic process of organization emerges. The emergence unpacks the GP into a surface utterance and gesture that articulates its meaning implications.
date: 1998
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/665/1/McNeill_Catchments.html
identifier:   McNeill, David  (1998) Models of Speaking (To Their Amazement) Meet Speech-Synchronized Gestures.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/665/