An Analysis of Motion Event Components and Accompanying Gestures in Turkish Narratives in Terms of Sentential Focus Position
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The present study investigates motion event expressions and their accompanyinggestures in Turkish discourse. Firstly, it aims to present the lexicalization patterns ofliteral motion event descriptions in Turkish comparing the results to those ofmetaphorical motion event descriptions. Secondly, it tries to explain the relationshipbetween linguistic typology and gestures focusing on the effect of sentential on motionevent gestures. In order to achieve these objectives a small gesture and speech annotatedcorpus is compiled from video recorded narrations of a story in wordless pictures toldby Turkish native speakers. Overall, literal motion events and metaphorical motionevents are found to show similar patterns in lexicalization with slight differences thatcan be attributed to different nature of the event descriptions. It is observed that pathgestures were the most used type of gestures in the narrations. However, mannerinformation is more frequently gestured when we
