Thomas Eccardt

List of John Benjamins publications for which Thomas Eccardt plays a role.

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Eccardt, Thomas 2006 The case for articulatory gestures – not sounds – as the physical embodiment of speech signs Advances in Functional Linguistics: Columbia School beyond its origins, Davis, Joseph, Radmila J. Gorup and Nancy Stern (eds.), pp. 283–308 | Article
The term articulatory gestures is common among linguists, amounting to a kind of analogy with the manual gestures of sign language. This paper takes the term seriously, rejecting the notion that sounds are the physical embodiment of the linguistic sign. Making the case for the gesture as a… read more