Alissa Melinger
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alissa Melinger is involved.
Articles
2005 Gesture and the communicative intention of the speaker Gesture 4:2, pp. 119–141 | Article
This paper aims to determine whether iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking constitute part of the speaker’s communicative intention. We used a picture description task in which speakers must communicate the spatial and color information of each picture to an interlocutor. By establishing… read more
2002 The lexical source of unexpressed participants and their role
in sentence and discourse understanding The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues, Merlo, Paola and Suzanne Stevenson (eds.), pp. 233–254 | Article