In:Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
[Human Cognitive Processing 62] 2018
► pp. 143–160
Chapter 5Looking ahead
Kinesiological analysis (Boutet, Morgenstern, Cienki)
Published online: 25 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.62.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.62.c5
Article outline
- 1.Initial main concepts
- 1.1Segments
- 1.2Degrees of freedom
- 2.A kinesiological view of gesture
- 2.1Intrinsically multiple frames of reference
- 2.2A geometry associated with space
- 2.3Dynamics
- 3.Movement (motor) control from a kinesiological perspective
- 3.1Velocity in relation to shape
- 3.2The opposition of phase law
- 3.3The principle of isochrony
- 3.4Codman’s paradox
- 3.5Types of motion transfer
- 3.6Discussion
- 4.Case study: Kinesiological analysis of the French gesture data
- 4.1Propagation flow and perfectivity
- 4.2Number and type of segments and perfectivity
- 4.3Qualitative analyses
- 5.Discussion
