Research shows that multimodal prosody and gesture align tightly in focus, indicating enhanced articulation.
• F0-slopes of falling accents vary in focus in German (confirming previous studies) • Multimodal temporal alignment of prosody and gesture is tighter in focus. • Focus licenses a more precise articulation of prosody and gesture. • Hyperarticulation is multimodal, as found in the interaction of prosody and gesture.
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