Signals of monologue continuation/completion: speech and gesture
... followed by an interactive conversation. This design makes the corpus particularly suitable for the present research purpose. Relying on the episodic structure of the narratives, as well as on the notions of the elementary discourse unit (EDU), the spoken sentence, and the functional types of manual gestures, the study arrives at the following results. Among the verbal signals of monologue completion, it was found that speakers tend to reduce the length of spoken sentences, that is, sequences of EDUs ...
