37.1463, FYI: Making Waves April 2026 Meeting

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LINGUIST List: Vol-37-1463. Thu Apr 16 2026. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 37.1463, FYI: Making Waves April 2026 Meeting

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Date: 16-Apr-2026
From: Mariia Pronina [mariia.pronina at uib.cat]
Subject: Making Waves April 2026 Meeting


The upcoming edition of Making Waves takes place next Wednesday, April
22, at 15:00 (CET). Amanda Brown and Masaaki Kamiya  will give a talk
titled “Investigating Ambiguity in English at the Sentence Level in
Prosody and Gesture”.
We look forward to seeing many of you there and to another lively
discussion.
Abstract:
Ambiguous sentences exist in natural language. In language production,
speakers may communicate intended interpretations through prosody
(e.g. Hirschberg and Avesani 1997; 2000; Syrett et al.,2014a) and
gesture (Brown & Kamiya, 2019). In language comprehension, prosodic
and visual cues may also facilitate ambiguity resolution (e.g. Prieto,
et al., 2013; Syrett, et al., 2014b). Investigating the contribution
of prosody and particularly gesture to ambiguity resolution at the
level of the sentence, however, poses considerable methodological
challenges. First, the relatively scarcity of ambiguous sentences in
naturally occurring discourse may constrain collection of large enough
samples for analysis. Second, while lab-based, read-aloud tasks
embedding target ambiguous sentences within disambiguating discourse
may elicit authentic prosody (Syrett et al. 2014b), participants may
not gesture while reading aloud (Brown, 2022). Third, the structure of
comprehension tasks may influence performance. This talk presents
possible ways to address these challenges, and concludes with a
discussion on ways to move beyond the word-level in investigations of
prosody and gesture in contexts of ambiguity.
To wrap up:
Time: 22 April 2026, 15:00 – 16:00 (CET)
Topic: Investigating Ambiguity in English at the Sentence Level in
Prosody and Gesture
Speaker: Amanda Brown (Syracuse University) & Masaaki Kamiya (Hamilton
College)
Hosts: Mariia Pronina & Rebecca Woods
Zoom link: https://upf-edu.zoom.us/j/96178988270 (Zoom login required)
The website with all the updated information can be found here -
https://sites.google.com/view/making-waves-group.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Phonetics




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