1. Gestural Beats: The Rhythm Hypothesis Evelyn McClave

2. Gestures - Iconics. These gestures refer to a very direct formal relationship between the gesture and meaning. Example: making the shape of a ball when talking about a ball. - Metaphorics. The gesture presents an image of an abstraction, a "concrete metaphor for a concept“. -Deictics. Pointing, which can reference a specific object or event, but often reference more a "location" in gesture- space where a specific idea or concept resides.

3. Beats The hand moving in rhythmic relationship to speech. Beats were thought to accent or emphasize portions of cooccurring speech.

4. Beats Beats visually mark a vocal rhythm evident in speech  Speech is primary and the gestural rhythm is more or less identical to the vocal rhythm Beats are rhythmically patterned by themselves  this pattern is not dependent on speech but meshes with speech at specific places to push the speech rhythm forward

5. Identifying Tone Units Pause a) but they´re all (pause) big _... °_ b)Ya know fat like ya know uh (pause) hairy.. °.... °_

6. Identifying Tone Units Pitch movement and it said now judge what you would do in.... °..... this case as a lawyer (pause).... °._ ___

7. Identifying Tone Units anacrusis: unstressed syllables at the beginning of an intonation group which are often spoken much faster than unstressed syllables later in the segment  indicates the start of a new tone unit

8. Identifying Tone Units Lengthening of a syllable  often used to determine the end of a tone unit

9. Identifying Tone Units change in register  signals a new tone unit

10. Gestural Rhythm. we were #1 of- #2. 27.04.03,04.05.06.07,08.09.10.11,12,13.14.15,16.17.18.19,20. TU TD NC TU TD NC.... -fer- ing her #3 the sing- #4 -gle. 21.22.23.24,25,26.27.28.29,5.00.01.02.03,04.05.06.07,08.09. TU NC TD TU TD.........

11. Summary 1. Beats occur on both stressed and unstressed syllables and during pauses 2. Beats are often organized in rhythmic patterns 3. If a beat coincides with the tone-unit nucleus, the downbeat rather than the upbeat will cooccur 4. When a beat cooccurs with a stressed monosyllabic word other than the tone-unit nucleus, either the upbeat or the downbeat may coincide with the word. 5. When a beat cooccurs with a multisyllabic word, a downbeat usually cooccurs with the syllable carrying primary stress