36.2240, Calls: Visual Patterns in the Phonetics of Gestures (DGfS 2026 Workshop) (Germany)

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Subject: 36.2240, Calls: Visual Patterns in the Phonetics of Gestures (DGfS 2026 Workshop) (Germany)

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Date: 23-Jul-2025
From: Alina Gregori [gregori at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de]
Subject: Visual Patterns in the Phonetics of Gestures (DGfS 2026 Workshop)


Full Title: Visual Patterns in the Phonetics of Gestures (DGfS 2026
Workshop)

Date: 24-Feb-2026 - 27-Feb-2026
Location: Trier, Germany
Web Site:
https://www.alinagregori.com/dgfs26-ag-visual-patterns-in-the-phonetics-of-gestures/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Phonetics; Phonology
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Aug-2025

2nd Call for Papers:
Human communication is a multimodal system. Research on the
contribution of the visual modality - in terms of gestures - to
linguistics has grown in the last years. While aspects of gesture’s
meaning and function have been intensively studied, less attention has
been paid to visual and kinematic features, which nevertheless form
the building blocks from which multimodal utterances constitute their
meaning. To fully grasp the meaning and function of gestures and
gradual variations in meaning, the phonetic characteristics of
gestures need to be considered as well. Therefore, this workshop aims
at bringing together researchers working on the phonetics of gestures,
contributing to specify which gestural features are relevant for
meaning constitution in communication and in what way. This entails
features like the timing or rhythmical aspects of gestures, their
physiological characteristics, as well as their (hand) shape, movement
trajectories or other kinematic measures.
In this workshop, we aim at discussing the properties of visual
constituents and kinematic features that affect meaning constitution
and comprehension of spoken and signed languages. We want to engage in
discussions on 1) methodological issues and advancements of
investigating phonetic aspects of gestures, 2) new perspectives on
which gestural features are relevant individually or in an integrated
relation for meaning constitution, and 3) theoretical implications for
linguistic and multimodal research that can be derived from the
investigation of phonetic aspects of gestures.
Abstracts need not be anonymous. Please use the DGfS-template for
abstract submission (download here:
https://www.alinagregori.com/dgfs26-ag-visual-patterns-in-the-phonetics-of-gestures/).
Abstracts should be at most 1 page in length, examples and references
included. For initial submission, you can use an additional page for
Figures and Tables, but please note that a second page cannot be
included in the final abstract for the DGfS Abstract booklet. Please
send your abstract in PDF-format to gregori at lingua.uni-frankfurt.de
and include your name, affiliation, and the title of the abstract in
the body of the e-mail. The workshop language is English and talks
will be 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion.



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