Susan D. Duncan

List of John Benjamins publications for which Susan D. Duncan plays a role.

Title

Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill

Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy

[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
McNeill, David, Susan D. Duncan, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher and Bennett Bertenthal 2010 Growth points from the very beginningThe Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article
Early humans formed language units consisting of global and discrete dimensions of semiosis in dynamic opposition, or ‘growth points.’ At some point, gestures gained the power to orchestrate actions, manual and vocal, with significances other than those of the actions themselves, giving rise to… read more
McNeill, David, Susan D. Duncan, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher and Bennett Bertenthal 2008 Growth points from the very beginningHolophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article
Early humans formed language units consisting of global and discrete dimensions of semiosis in dynamic opposition, or ‘growth points.’ At some point, gestures gained the power to orchestrate actions, manual and vocal, with significances other than those of the actions themselves, giving rise to… read more
Duncan, Susan D. and Laura Pedelty 2007 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent AphasiaGesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 269–283 | Chapter
Levy, Elena T., Susan D. Duncan and Justine Cassell 2007 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of LanguageGesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
Duncan, Susan D., Amy Franklin, Mika Ishino, Irene Kimbara and Fey Parrill 2005 Festschrift Conference Honoring David McNeill, held at the University of Chicago, June 8th 2003Gesture 4:2, pp. 251–255 | Miscellaneous
Linguistic analyses of Mandarin Chinese and English have detailed the differences between the two languages in terms of the devices each makes available for expressing distinctions in the temporal contouring of events — verb aspect and Aktionsart. In this study, adult native speakers of each… read more
McNeill, David, Francis Quek, Karl-Erik McCullough, Susan D. Duncan, Nobuhiro Furuyama, Robert Bryll, Rashid Ansari and Rashid Ansari 2001 Catchments, prosody and discourseGesture 1:1, pp. 9–33 | Article
We present our work on the temporal integration of hierarchies of communicative actions: kinesic, prosodic and discursive. We use the device of the ‘catchment’ as the locus around which this integration proceeds. We present a detailed case study of a gesture and speech elicitation experiment in… read more