{"pk":32017,"title":"Rhythmic Commonalities between Hand Gestures and Speech","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Studies of coordination in rhythmic limb movement have established that certain phase relationships among cycling limbs are preferred, i.e. patterns such as synchrony and anti-synchrony are produced more often and more reliably than arbitrary relations. A speech experiment in which subjects attempt to place a phrase-medial stress at a range of phases within an overall phrase repetition cycle is presented, and analogous results are found. Certain phase relations occur more frequently and exhibit greater stability than others. To a first approximation, these phases are predicted by a simple harmonic model. The observed commonalities between limb movements and spoken rhythm support Leishley's conjecture that a common control strategy underlies the coordination of all rhythmic activity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6wv6q6nr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Fred","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cummins","name_suffix":"","institution":"Departments of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"F.","last_name":"Port","name_suffix":"","institution":"Departments of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Indiana University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1996-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32017/galley/23082/download/"}]}