Abstract. In sign languages, negative sentences are often accompanied by nonmanual markers of negation, including headshake. In some sign languages, nonmanual markers alone can express negation, witho...

Job title: Postdoctoral research fellowship in gesture-vocalization relations in song performance (301742), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, August 17, 2026

Ubiquitous Audiency: Recorded Music and Attention in Everyday Public-Space Encounters in China

Adjusting to the Other: Audiencing through Gesture in Karnatak Vocal Lessons

Performance in the Round: Embedded Audiency at Music–Dance Events in Mali

Round Table: Audiency beyond the Concert Hall: Theory and Ethnographic Case Studies

Perceptual systems adapt through individual experience across the lifespan, an ability referred to as plasticity. To understand perceptual plasticity,…

Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

Iconicity is a term used in cognitive science and gesture studies to denote an informative relation between the form of an utterance and the meaning of that utterance. With good design, ...

While recurrent manual gestures have been extensively studied, nonmanual actions such as head movements remain less explored, especially in naturalistic interaction. This study investigates whether he...

This chapter argues for a decisive shift in corpus-building practices toward a Multimodal Turn. For decades, smaller-scale spoken and signed languages were less available for linguistic corpus researc...

From birth, respiration constitutes an intrinsic rhythm. We suggest that vocalizations and bodily movements are interactively coordinated with this respiratory rhythm, providing a temporal framework ...

In music performance contexts, vocalists tend to gesture with hand and upper body movements as they sing. But how does this gesturing relate to the sung phrases, and how do singers’ gesturing styles ...

Over 20 species of geographically and phylogenetically diverse bird species produce convergent whining vocalizations towards their respective brood parasites. Model presentation and playback experiments across multiple continents suggest that these learned calls provoke an innate response even among allopatric species.

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