#EmbSynNet

Wonderful workshop and a perfect prequel for the conference 🤩#EmbSynNet

#EmbSynNet-@iira_it_is describes ways overhearers participate in radio talk. They do listening, making space to hear, but also by ‘complementing radio messages’: they do collaborative completions & gestures, with the expectation that their contrib. is repeated by radio user

#EmbSynNet - Marri Amon presents on multimodal practices, including syntax, for storytelling in Estonian. Looking in depth at a story between mother & daughter about a pushy salesman, we see how different resources are mobilized to accomplish the speech as reported.

#EmbSynNet-Paweł Urbanik presents on suspending syntax to do depiction (construction site data), rather than other activities arising (pain, sensing). Really interesting problematization of what counts as suspension+completion vs. bodily completion+increment follow up.

#EmbSynNet-Yuval Geva presented on how musical demonstrations can be integrated in grammar, showing a scale from embedding them in grammatical clauses, to their use as turn expansions to independent (but conditionally relevant) turns at talk.

#EmbSynNet-Melissa Juillet presents on French ‘parce que’ clauses without verbal completion, specifically how body is used & how this changes longitudinally in L2 speakers as they improve competence.

#EmbSynNet-Lorenza Mondada presented on how sensing activities can suspend syntax (see more here: https://t.co/jIczRfDRr2)-particularly interesting to me were how 'abandoned' syntax enables others to provide completions & do sensing. Points out problems w. terms like 'disruption'

#EmbSynNet-Plenary by Jakob Steensig (also @DanTIN_Grammar), who presents on how to incorporate the body in a formal grammar. Asking what resources we should incorporate, and how & where they feature in the grammar, Steensig argues that we must be guided by accountability.

#EmbSynNet-@AdoKerrison presents an example of accountable, compositional syntax in non-turn taking context: the organization of sports cheering. Recognizability of units key for group to produce right synchrony with each other & game, as well as initiate novel or practiced units

#EmbSynNet- @neyra_rosario1 & Matthew Butler et al. present on how bodily movements contribute a sense of aspect to nonlexical+bodily movement depictions. I found really interesting how nonlexicals may invoke epistemic stance, as they depend on having exp. of the depicted thing.

#EmbSynNet-@MaijaTjukanov presents on training Finnish sign language use, demonstrating that errors in the signs are corrected with contrast pairs and a verbal (aural) explanation.

#EmbSynNet- Anna Inbar & Yael Maschler present on how teasing can be done in Hebrew with a specific format: ‘lo’/no+’ki’/because+ironic utterance. The format allows speakers to problematize and gently make accountable prior inadequate suggestions.

#EmbSynNet- @weathean presents on the coordination of clauses with instructed sequence of self defence moves. With practice the rhythm improves, tying syntax and the motions. A lot of discussion about the mnemonic as well as temporal affordances of the words (eg 'nose gut nuts').

#EmbSynNet- gah I have notes on all the talks today, but the first three are on paper so I will post those later tonight. Rest of the talks to follow.

#EmbSynNet-@cal_virgi @SophiaFiedler5 & Hilla Polak-Yitzhaki present on quotative constructions in 3 langs (Italian, French, Hebrew), looking at how 'do+#nonlexical' does depiction. I loved the fact that the data shown were all quotes of non-verbal things eg music, brake sounds

#EmbSynNet-@EhmerOliver presented on dance teachers using a syntactically complete description+ #nonlexical timed with the completion of a demonstration, showing how it highlights a dance move as (now) accomplished. Suggests aspect, telicity (structuring components of the move),

#EmbSynNet-Anne-Sylvie Horlacher & Simona Pekarek Doehler present on how if-clauses in French and how they are completed, besides verbal completions: being incomplete/’free’ (invites recipient co-participation and/or inference), w. #nonlexicals, w. bodily depiction.

#EmbSynNet-@klarasmarian & Ali Reza Majlesi present on (dis)affiliative responses done through ‘standalone’ #nonlexicals in L2 interac. NLVs take a stance to prior tellings & seem especially useful for learners to participate & display (timely) stance w.o. needing precise vocab.

#EmbSynNet-@klarasmarian presents interesting intersection of how to analyze longitudinal data, L1/L2 comparisons, & individual habit. How do speakers use 'en fait' multimodally, & how do we determine what elements go into an accountable action package vs. individuality, learning