Evelyn McClave
List of John Benjamins publications in which Evelyn McClave is involved.
Articles
2007 8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in Turkana Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 91–98 | Chapter
2007 Head movements in the context of speech in Arabic, Bulgarian, Korean, and African-American Vernacular English Gesture 7:3, pp. 343–390 | Article
A previous study among European-Americans (McClave, 2000) observed that particular forms of head movements occur in specific communicative environments. The present study investigates whether any of the form–function relationships observed in the original study are cross-cultural. The database… read more
2001 The relationship between spontaneous gestures of the hearing and American Sign Language Gesture 1:1, pp. 51–72 | Article
This paper presents evidence of non-manual gestures in American Sign Language (ASL). The types of gestures identified are identical to non-manual, spontaneous gestures used by hearing non-signers which suggests that the gestures co-occurring with ASL signs are borrowings from hearing culture. A… read more