[About the book]: Multimodality is an innovative approach to representation, communication
and interaction which looks beyond language to investigate the multitude of ways we …

Communication is facilitated when listeners allocate their attention to important information
(focus) in the message, a process called “information structure.” Linguistic cues like the …

Current methodologies in corpus linguistics have revolutionized the way we look at
language. They allow us to make objective observations about written and spoken …

Irregularities in the amplitude and period are characteristic of both normal and pathological
sustained vowels; they are a product of perturbations inherent in the phonation process …

We explore nonlinear signal processing methods inspired by dynamical systems and fractal
theory in order to analyze and characterize speech sounds. A speech signal is at first …

Previous research has found that spontaneous synchronization of bodily movements
emerges when people interact. This dynamic interactional synchrony occurs in all kinds of …

This paper attempts to draw attention of the multimodal communication research community
to what we consider a long overdue topic, namely respiratory activity in conversation. We …

Repetition poses certain problems for pragmatics, as evidenced by Sperber and Wilson's
claim that “the effects of repetition on utterance interpretation are by no means constant” …

In face-to-face conversation, communicators orchestrate multimodal contributions that
meaningfully combine the linguistic resources of spoken language and the visuo-spatial …

In this work, we shall examine the fractal properties of simple vocal sounds such as
Japanese vowels by evaluating the fractal dimension related to the self-affine property. We …