Chapter 3. Birth of a Morph

McNeill, David; Sowa, Claudia

doi:10.1075/gs.4.04mcn

In:Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture
Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino
[Gesture Studies 4] 2011
► pp. 27–48

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Chapter 3. Birth of a Morph

David McNeill | Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, USA

Claudia Sowa | Department of Neurology, University of Erlangen, Germany

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Published online: 30 June 2011

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When speech is prevented, gesture morphs emerge de novo. The morphs include standards of good form and syntagmatic values. However, when speech is present, gestures do not attain morph status, do not have standards of form or syntagmatic values.

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